I dedicate this blog to my amazing friend Michael Gabriel of Orlando,Forida.
What he wrote today and shared in Facebook world made my heart smile.I am so deeply touch by his writings and I felt that I should honor Michael by dedicating this page to him.
"True LOve and Friendship are the same"
Michael Gabriel
MY 2011 HERO OF THE YEAR
Dear friends,
As you may know, I always choose a friend of the day. Also, I am strong in showing my admiration and support for pro-women lives, women and men alike, who heroically contribute to the health and happiness of women all over the world. Well, before we break the new year, I would like to announce my women's rights activist-hero and Friend of the Year: Julie Cox. After undergoing so many misfortunes, after suffering for so many years, she was determined to live unbroken, to keep her heart open, and to keep on moving forward. Not only did she become a successful businesswoman and philanthropist in both her homes, the United States and the Philippines, she decided to write a poetic memoir of how she did it, titled I Ordered My Future Yesterday, thereby sharing her story with many more women and men so that they would do the same with their lives!
I would like to invite you to think for a second this year: how many Julies do you think we have today? How many Julies do we have in the third world, even in the first world? How many Julies are children today, feeling helpless after experiencing rape? What can we do today to inspire those women to never, ever lose sight f the tremendous beauty and power they hold within, no matter what vicious people may have done to them? Even if we do a simple act like this short message I left you all to reach out, to motivate you to buy Julie's book, to feel her story, to feel the young Julies we have today, to see what you can do to help?! In the spirit of Julie's dedication and good work, I urge you all to open your heart, to never give up on yourselves no matter how much viciousness you have encountered in your life, and to never EVER give up on our young sisters ALL OVER the world! All my love and congrats to you Julie and to your male life partner. I hope that you and all of my friends here have a healthy, loving, compassionate and transformative new year!! Please visit Julie's inspiring site at http://www.iorderedmyfutureyesterday.com/. Also please look up Julie's book on Amazon.com. It is very accessible: it sells for less than $11! Again, her inspiring book's title is I Ordered My Future Yesterday ♥
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