A Sister's Life Changing Experience Of Faith And Hope Part Twenty Six

We all decide to travel home early and as we're we see a news reporter coming towards us before any of us could get to the bus. The news reporter spots me and the other girl I had met and she says that she would like to do a story piece on us. Then she tells us how both of our parents have told them the story of how we met and how my sister's story was relate able to the girl's cousin and they would like me to do a story piece on how it's helped my faith and helped me with hope. They then tell the other girl they would like to a piece with her where she tells about her cousin's journey in continuing to fight and would like to interview both of us, and just get our perspective on how we met and will we continue to stay in touch. Next the reporter tells us that once they finish the piece that we do with them, they will work on it and let us know when it will air on television and if it does well with the news then they know somebody in the television business that would love to create a holiday special that would continue to air through out this month and would continue to air throughout years to come. We glance at each other and then back at families we know and love and then we agree. The coach tells the team to go with her to the bus and they will be waiting. Our families however, are standing off to the side a little because the news reporter had already gotten the things they needed from them, which was the stories of the two people we have mentioned. Now they want us to tell them everything that I've just mentioned. I go first. The news reporter starts asking me questions about what it was like to grow up in my household. I answer, with how it was always a delightful and memorable experience growing up with a family who has so much faith and hope in God, because our parents have taught us that when things get rough and we don't know where to go, always turn to Jesus and He'll be there to catch us and when we're feeling down to pray to Him because He always listens to our prayers. She asks me then on how I felt when my sister had been diagnosed and how I felt when I found out about the things she had been born with. I told her that it made me sad, because my brother was in the army and everything up till now and it would be hard to watch someone you love be in and out of the hospital so many times, only to find out that she had something else. I tell her how I felt when she never did get to return back to school and do the thing she got chosen for. I start tearing up, because it's making me emotional to talk but I continue on. I continue with talking about how it was hard to take over in a position that was made for my sister. I tell her when I would find out that she was born with another syndrome that would make her go to a different hospital further away from her earthly home, I felt sad because I truly felt the treatments would work and she would be home and when she got transported back, well I thought our local hospital would send her home in the morning, but to find out the news that she passed, well it was like a feeling of grief because my best friend was taken away from me. She then asks, if my faith and hope have grown stronger since my sister's passing. I answer with, yes because my sister if you knew her, was a joy and caring person to have around and you couldn't help but smile when she was in the room. Even though she fought for a long time, she's in Heaven not hurting and that's the way things need to be because it was in God's timing that He called her home to Heaven and we know everything will be okay. She thanks me and then goes to talk with the girl. The girl tells her story and we're crying silently, because we never really knew how much the girl's cousin's story was similar to Blake and I's sister. Once she finishes, we both share how we met and how we would stay in touch because having a friend that understands something like what we've been through, but mainly to know what my sister has been through, is a rare find. When I say a rare find I mean it's rare to know that there would be somebody out there that shares the same hurt, the same worry and so being able to have met and become friends at a competition like this has been an incredible journey. The news reporter thanks us and tells us that they have everything they need. We say goodbye to the news people, and then our families say goodbye to one another. The girl gets on the bus she came on and so do I, and as for my entire family I watch them follow us from behind. The girl's parents follow behind the bus the girl is in and finally my sister's teammates and I arrive at home and I send an email letting the mother of the girl's cousin that her daughter would have been proud and our family prayers for all of you daily. The mother replies, thank you we need it and my daughter is resting now but so glad you got to meet her cousin at the competition. I leave it at that and I spend time with my family, talking to them about how I want to create an online fundraiser to help people like our sister, so that their families can know that no matter what it may seem like or feel like right now, that they're never alone in this world. My family agrees and they couldn't be more proud in what I have done this year, because that's who we are a loving and caring family who believes in God and trusts in Him that God is worthy and loving.