Hennrietta Lacks

I'm reading a book about HeLa cells. You may have heard of Henrietta Lacks. A black woman who died from cervical cancer yet her cells still live today in labs across the world.

"We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
~~ Elie Wiesel (from "The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code")

I have always known that each person is exactly that-- a person. Created in God's image with a need for love. From the unborn, to the child, to the elderly. Our society has a way of casting these aside somehow.

My desire is to always make those around me aware of how special each of us are in God's sight and how special we should be in one another's sight. Take care of each other. People matter.

Somebody's mother...