Pass It On!

The Waner Foundation & The Hannah Storm Foundation
Are Helping Raise Awareness In Washington D.C.

Hotel accommodations are at the Four Seasons Hotel, 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20007  phone 202-342-0444

Participants need to reference the Hannah Storm Foundation and/or the Waner Children’s Vascular Anomaly Foundation

 Join us on October 23, 2009 as we begin at at the Brookings Institue, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036 from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m, where we will discuss issues relating to health care and awarness.

 Then we’ll be at the Hogan Law Firm, 555 13^th Street NW Auditorium, Washington, DC 20004 from 12 to 5 p.m., with guest speakers like Dr. Milton Waner, Nicholas Sparks – famous author, and others.

 And last – a cocktail hour at the ESPN Zone, 555 12^th Stret NW, #7, Washington, DC 20004 were we’ll finish off the day.

The goal is to help inform, raise awareness, and educate people on how to advocate for those with vascular anomalies.

Also visit www.wanervascularbithmarkkids.wordpress.com for more information.  Registration is free.

Pass It On!

Recently, my seven year old joined Girl Scouts.  As I stood in the church hall way, waiting for her to finish up her meeting, I heard their leader tell the girls to “give each other a little squeeze and pass it on to the other.”

How many times has taken you by the hand, touch you on the shoulder, or the arm and gave you that little squeeze of reassurance?

It’s hard to believe that something so simple as a squeeze can make someone feel so much better. 

As the girls stood in their circle, arms crossed, hand in hand, they repeated the girl scout signet and each gave the other a squeeze until it had gone full circle.

Today, pass on a small squeeze, a hand, a shoulder, (nothing volgur or out of place) and soon you’ll see it come back full circle and know that you are loved.

An excerpt from Dennis Rainey’s book “Moments

The Leaky Balloon

But I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil.
Romans 16:19 NASB

Early one evening, I drove Rebecca–then 14–to meet some girlfriends for a bunking party. But her friends were running late, and as we sat there waiting in a parking lot, God orchestrated a great teaching moment.

We were talking about how she was going to relate to the opposite sex as she got older–about how far she would go sexually with a young man. A water balloon was lying in the console between us; it was stashed ammo from a balloon fight at our home a few days before. Picking it up, I got an idea.

“Let’s say this water balloon is filled with your sexual purity and innocence. This is all you have. How much of it would you want to give away before you’re married?”

“None of it,” she answered. “I want to give it all to my husband!”

Then I put it in teenage terms. “Let’s say a young man comes to you and just wants a little kiss–your first kiss–just a little bit of your innocence.” I held up the balloon and pretended to pierce it with an imaginary needle. Then another boy comes along, and he just wants a little more. Then later on, you fall in love and decide it’s okay to give away even more.”

I paused and looked deeply into her wide eyes. “How much innocence and purity will you have left to give the man you marry?”

“It would be all gone,” she said, “little by little.”

Now I have a question for parents: As you look at how this culture is seducing our teenagers, how do you need to teach and instruct your teens? If you don’t hold the standard high for your children, then who will?

Discuss
As parents, what is your game plan to help your children “be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil”? Talk about one or two convictions that you want to pass on to your children.

PASS IT ON