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

I see on the school's website that there isn't school today, so I take this time to create an online fundraiser for not only my sister but for the other families that go through this. I put in the description that the money is going to go to the charities that help people like my sister so they can find a cure. I tell them how my sister has passed away and how it has made me feel, but I tell them everything will be okay. I set it up and then log out of the account. I then check any emails I may have gotten. There was one from the girl's cousin, and one from the news station. I open the one from the news station first. It simply reads: Good morning, we are just sending out a reminder that the holiday story piece we worked on yesterday will be airing tonight. We hope you enjoy watching with your family as much as we will be enjoying watching from the news station here. One of our news team reporters will be tweeting as some of you high school kids say, but they know twitter better than I do. Anyway the program will air at seven this evening, so be sure to tune into channel 10 for KRLSN News to watch the special. Sincerely, the KRLSN NEWS TEAM. I now look at the email from the girls cousin, and it reads: It is with a heavy heart that my cousin has passed away early this morning, her mom, which is my aunt notified me by the same email you stayed in contact with them by. You must know that before we even met your family, my cousin has been on a very long journey with this and that she did her best for us to keep fighting but now she can rejoice and be happy in Heaven with Jesus and reunite with Him. Please keep our family in your prayers as we will keep your family in ours. The news station knows about it but they are not making any changes to our holiday piece. The only thing we have asked them to add for us, and for you guys is a in loving memory of, well we got permission from your parents of course and they thought that was wonderful and agreed to it. So that is what the news station will do and they're still going with it as planned where it airs all the time, so that people can be inspired by it and touched by a story that is inspirational. Who knows where this will lead to, but all I know is that I'm here if you ever like to talk. I know what you're going through right now, and I could always use a friend to talk with. I reply, so could I. She leaves it at that. That same day it had come time for the holiday special, and my family and I cried and smiled but I sent out a tweet to the news reporter who was tweeting, thank you for everything you have done. The special was great. The news reporter quickly replies I'm glad and this was and is an amazing story. I go and check the online fundraiser and I can see already over a million people have donated to it. My whole family has been overwhelmed with the support other people we know and love and others we hardly know, have donated to a cause that will help those find a cure my sister and a new friend have gone through. I log back out of the account and just hang out with my family for the rest of the day as we count down to the new year. It is now the beginning year of 2008 and we have decided that we're grateful and thankful for the time we got to spend with the one we love. We have closure now because we know that we have Jesus but we also know we have other family and friends that we can talk to, but we mainly know that Jesus will take care of our fears and our hurt and our sadness we have in our hearts. Although, my sister would have wanted us to be happy and not cry over her loss. So we're going to try our best to remember her with happiness rather than sadness. We're going to honor her in all of our activities we do as a family and I am going to remember that my faith and my hope have gotten stronger everyday because I know that it was God who has helped me throughout all of this and because of that I will know that it's the good memories and not the bad that get you through the  best of times. I pray and hope that as you have followed our journey and my sister's journey that you have learned something from all of this. Now does this mean her legacy of what used to be is over? No, it just means that this chapter for me telling our story to all of you is done. So as I say goodbye, I hope you remember our story and remember all of us as we have for all of you. Sequel: It's been a long time since I've written on here again, as I know I've probably said goodbye in a different chapter. I know that you've probably needed a new update and that is what I'm going to give. It's been a long time since my sister has passed but in that time we've done well and even though the news has stopped airing the special, and we decided not to go towards the television business of making it a show, we have gotten mail from people who have been going through what we have and we've even had the girl's aunt and the girl I had met at a competition over for occasions. We have always wanted them to feel welcome, since they had been praying for us like we have for them. In other news, that online fundraiser of mine has ended and the money has been sent to people who will work on finding a cure so that no one else has to go through what we have in the past year. My sister's story is still being told by myself and all of my family members and the story of the girl's cousin who had passed later on. I believe we have more to our stories because God created us in His Image and He is still working in our lives, helping us reveal the next chapter in our lives. Prequel: So now this is going to be a final update on us, we're doing well and the one girl's family is going to go with us on a trip to where we're going to share her cousin's story as well as my sister's story. Their legacies are going to live on forever because we're going to be sharing every impact that they had on us, as well as others that had come into their lives. We hope to make a difference in their families lives as well as any kids who have been going through what they have had to go through. So we just wanted to say thank you for one last time, because having many people follow this has been a blessing and it has been wonderful to know that a lot of people have supported this journey as well.