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Dear God…Please bless Noah Biorkman…
by Michelle C. Carr-Crowe
Dear God…
Please bless and watch over Noah and
his family. Give them health, strength and peace. Let this holiday season be
filled with love and joy and answered prayers.
Amen.
Does anyone remember the 1996 movie, “Dear God” starring Greg Kinnear?
In it, a cynical con man must take the only job he can get
(in the dead letter department at the post office) as a condition of parole.
While there, he finds out there is an entire bin of undeliverable dead letter
mail, including dozens of “Dear God” letters. Some of it contains cash, jewelry
and other goodies.
Although he initially intends to steal the unclaimed money
and valuables from this undeliverable mail, he ends up having a change of heart
and leads his colleagues in answering prayers found in the letters.
Most of the time when I receive an email request to send
Christmas cards to a sick child or help find a missing child, I’m a bit
cynical. I check it out first on Urban
Legends or Snopes. About 90 percent of
the time it’s either an urban legend or expired (e.g. the missing child was
found 2 years ago).
So when my colleague Linda Gonzales sent a request to mail
Christmas cards to Noah Biorkman, a young boy with neuroblastoma in Michigan,
whose family planned to celebrate Christmas early this weekend, I checked it
out first. To my pleasant surprise, it’s a legitimate request. There were links
to the local
radio station WYCD and Noah’s Care Pages. (The
only hiccup was they already celebrated their family Christmas last weekend.)
Here’s the most recent posting from Noah’s mother on Care Pages:
Posted Nov 11, 2009
We received 80,000 pieces of mail on
Monday alone! We even received mail today on Veteran's Day! Yes, the Post
Office is closed today, yet, we still got mail!
My garage is so full that we asking
for everyone to please send all communications to Noah's father's house. Everything
should go to the following:
Scott Biorkman
3480 Petoskey Way
Milford, Michigan 48380
Please post on all Facebook accounts
the address change.
Posted Nov 9, 2009 12:23am
What a week! Scott and I have had a
hard time wrapping our brain
around how much support and compassion we have received from people
all around the world!!! Noah was the 17th most googled topic on
Thursday and 12th on Friday!! Unbelievable!!!!!!!
Thank you to everyone for the support!
Thank you to everyone that listened to my requests for peace…
So for the cost of a
stamp and five minutes of your time to write a note, address the card and put
on the stamp, you can be part of God’s love and a child’s Christmas miracle.
Dear God…
Please bless and watch over Noah and
his family. Give them health, strength and peace. Let this holiday season be
filled with love and joy and answered prayers.
Amen.