Gift Of Emily

How a stranger's practical love turned catastrophe back into life. This is where Emily's Place began

A woman, a stranger from ARIZONA responded to a request that went out from Regina’s faith community to single adults in Portland, Oregon. It was the third week of October.

Regina asked this stranger why she wanted to help her. Emily, 25 years old, said she had been praying (sending thoughts into the universe ❤️) long and hard to know: “What is my purpose? Where should I go? Who should I serve—and, likewise, who should I let serve me for those blessings?”

In the last week of August, Emily related that she’d gotten the answer to her “Where was she supposed to go" question! 

“Oregon, at the end of October.” 

The answer was so clear and powerful, that she quit her job as a nanny and prepared to go—praying (meditating) to know the “who was she supposed to serve" answer. Seven weeks later, a friend in Oregon forwarded the letter about Regina: a mother in need of help crushed by  a disabling case of Lyme disease, a mother in need of help. When Emily read it, she knew this was the family she was supposed to help! One week later, at the end of October, she arrive.  She did the things that caused Regina inhumane torture to do herself. 

Regins had been crushingly debilitated for twelve years. Four months after she resumed treatment—with Emily’s help for previous six months—she went into remission. She’s confident that the gift of Emily was a BIG PART of her healing. 

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In January 2020, Regina felt inspired,

 "To do for other women what Emily did for her for women of all races, religions and sexual orientations where she lived.”

TWO WEEKS LATER

She had the strongest feeling, like a thread in the universe, to reach out to Wren Sparrow, (Ph.D.), a woman she'd never met in person and hadn't talked to in nearly two years. What Regina had no way of knowing was that Wren had recently made peace with the decision that when her money ran out at the end of February, it was going to be the end for her too!

She had suffered into the realm of the inhumane far too long and had been beaten down by her family and the medical community far too much. (See Prisoner in Own Body)

It wasn't easy to convince her to change her mind.

But the great news is that Wren not only came to Regina’s home, she set off across the country declaring the words of Alexander Pope,

  “Hope Springs Eternal In The Human Breast.”  

[Note] If you are thinking about ending your life, you are not alone. In the U.S. call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.