29gifts.com has a wonderful story behind it and it is something that I relate to quite well. Like the woman behind 29gifts.com my mother has Multiple Sclerosis and I have seen the power of giving in action through my mother so I am very pleased to see yet another individual whom the power of giving has impacted so wondrously.
When my mother was 34 years old she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and at the time she was literally unable to care for herself. In 1979 she moved back to her home province and for the next number of years she began to give of herself to others. She started a newsletter that not only empowered her but empowered others around her and she became a published writer, an organizer of a number of events and so much more.
Although my mother didn't have the dramatic level of remission that Cami Walker of 29gifts.com experienced, she did have an incredible "rebirth" due to her own involvement with giving of herself to others. My mother's rebirth was so profound that in early 2000 she was offered the opportunity to live in an apartment of her own (she was staying in an assisted living home). She turned it down with this statement, "Thank you but God wants me here and I can be of more service here than in a place of my own!"
Cami Walker's story is one of true inspiration as well and it is just another wonderful example of what being grateful for what you have and sharing of yourself with others can do in your life.
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