Dearest hosts, sponsors, donators, volunteers, organizers, supporters, community, friends, family, and complete strangers:
The lotus is a flower that grows in the mud. The thicker and deeper the mud, the more beautiful the lotus blooms.
It has been almost a year of extremely thick mud our precious Emma has been growing in. Although her body may be showing the toll the pain this degenerative brain disease has taken on her; her sweet spirit is continuing to bloom into a perfect, beautiful girl she always has been and continues to be.
May 4th , Shelby Jr High hosted with the Shelby Lions Club a fundraiser dinner for our daughter’s mounting medical expenses. The turnout and support for the event was overwhelming. Literally hundreds of people from the Metro Detroit area supported Emma’s event in one way or another. We are humbled and blessed by the outpouring of love for her. From the bottom of our broken hearts…thank you. Your support for Emma not only helps our family financially, but the love and prayers has touched our hearts in such a way that no words could ever explain how grateful we are.
Your continued thoughts and prayers are very much appreciated. We are heading to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore in June. Emma has a long, hard road ahead of her. She will be turning 13 the end of May, and for being so young she is truly the strongest little girl we know. We are grateful to know we are not alone to walk in her painful life’s journey. We know that God watches over us, and that you are part of His plan to care and walk with us.
“God’s primary instrument in caring for His planet and the people on it is other people…”
–Adam Hamilton
With deepest gratitude,
Aaron and Heidi Ritzrow
