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I didn't blow out 23 candles on a birthday cake this year.
God had other plans.
And while I was busy transitioning from Liberia to America in May and starting graduate school in June, God was patiently digging a hole in my heart soon to be filled by...Facebook.
Here is how Facebook Causes helped me raise over $1,000 for Liberia Mission Inc. in just three days:
Saturday, June 25, two days before my 23rd birthday, life had finally slowed down, and I found myself missing the children of Liberia Mission deeply. Until that solemn moment, I had only missed them in passing - bragging about "the kids" and trying to emulate their light-heartedness when I remembered to. But now, their laughter was loud, their hugs warm, and the thought of these pierced my heart and lingered. I ached.
"Mission amnesia," my boyfriend defined it over the phone one night.
"For true," I thought to myself. But it wasn't that I had forgotten about Sianneh, Joseph, Darius and the beneficiaries, had I? No. Worse, I had sunk into my to-do lists and avoided the reality of letting go - a defense I know well.
My heart dropped to my stomach, where it remained all morning until a pesky email from Facebook's Causes caught my attention.
"Lindsay, it's not too late to donate your birthday!" I read on. "So far, over 140,000 people have created one (a Birthday Wish on Causes), and they've raised over 8 million dollars."
After a little research, I was sold.
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