Day Last/Heading Home
Before we bused back to Antigua, Bob opened the last day with Mother Teresa’s quote found on the wall of her home for children in Calcutta.
Bob shared that our group of stellar humans–doctors, dentists, leaders, interpreters, wheelchair builders, Red Hats, Faith In Practice people, Do Whatever It Takes people–cared for 2,054 patients in four days, in two villages:
- Adult Medicine 839
- Pediatrics 249
- Gynecology 168
- Dental 255 with 496 extractions
- Via Cryo 133
- Mobility 143 with 93 wheelchairs
- plus 257 referrals for surgeries and other specialists
A heart growing week.
What’d we learn?
Wheelchairs are life transformers. Not only for the one who didn’t walk or barely walked—for the web of family who care for them. For the five-year-old who moved herself for the first time and now can go to school. For her joy. For the 87-year-old whose brother carried her in on his back even though she outweighs him. For their joy.
Expertise X Team X Love = magic.
You can connect with people in a blip of time when you open your heart.
By helping people we break down the illusion of separateness.
Wearing a sticker on your forehead makes you more approachable to small children.
Kind words is the best medicine.
Generosity is infectious.
Gratitude as a compass will lead you far.
There’s always a solution and often times it involves duct tape.
Take your sense of wonder wherever you go. Your smile too.
Miracles are real.
If not now, when?
If not you, who?
Do as much as you can for as many as you can for as long as you can.
Love is always the answer.
As Team Wells scatters, we hold this week in our hearts. We are forever changed for the good.
Leaving this Mother Teresa quote right here, found on the wall of her home for children in Calcutta:
People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
