Alan’s Wish
| September 27, 2012 | Posted by Angela under Why I like San Antonio, Words of Inspiration & Motivation |
When my colleague forwarded me an email about a 4 year old boy, Alan, and his wish to visit the tallest building in San Antonio as he was battling a deadly cancer, I thought, “we have to go.” I didn’t know his situation, I just knew that this was a rush wish through the Make A Wish Foundation and that he wanted to visit the Weston Centre, a special building for many Rackers (where I use to work). Click here to read more about the Weston Centre in a previous blog post.
So we went and were assigned the 2nd floor, banners and balloons in hand. We thought he was going to each floor chronologically but he wanted to skip around, just to make it interesting for us. We waited and waited, and I was so nervous because I wanted to cheer him on yet, I knew that it wasn’t go to be easy. He finally landed on our floor and we startled him with our loud cheer. Such a beautiful child and his family were all right there standing behind him, supporting him. Check out this video Racker Dave Sims produced:
I am glad I went. I pray that the family receives the strength to endure the difficult road ahead. I also want to thank Alan for being brave and for showing all of us what life is about. We can’t control what God has planned for us. We do, however, have control over how we live it and we should live each day without regret.
Click here to watch the video on the news.
Click here to see more photos of Alan.
Later that day, I saw this rainbow right over the Weston Centre, just for little Alan.
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This is so beautiful mija, I pray for Alan and his family. Love you! Mom
That was great La Bird! And its so commendable that Rackspace allows their employees to be involved for such worthy causes!
Thank you Angela for such a life-afirming write-up of my nephew. One of his roles must be to remind us of how beautiful life can be.
I’m sorry that I can’t view the video and hope it will be repaired later on.
I enjoyed this beautiful rainbow the same day. I was downtown and tried to capture it on my phone but your photo really is breathtaking! So touching for Jake’s family and thank you for posting their story.
With light and love- JKC-SATX