Impacting Lives

My son Gerald met his mentor Cameron yesterday. We signed up for Big Brothers big Sisters last year and have been waiting patiently. When I told my son they found him a mentor he was so excited.
 
Cameron came to our home and him and my son instantly clicked. Cameron was asking all kinds of questions about Gerald and Gerald loved the attention!! We filled out the paperwork and Gerald kept asking if we were done yet because he couldn't wait to go to the park with Cameron.
 
As Cameron and Gerald walked down the road to the park from my house tears filled my eyes. What a beautiful thing to have a person like Cameron in this world. My son was walking proud next to him as if he'd known him all his life. Talking and laughing and feeling like he was the most important person in the world!
 
As a single mother who tries to be their for my son in every way, I can not take the place of a man in his life. I have struggled with that reality for 10 years and probably always will. As a mother you want to give your child everything and anything you possibly can and that was the one thing I couldn't give him....a male figure to look up to and to set an example of what a good man should be like.
 
Well, after Cameron left Gerald was talking a mile a minute about what he thought of his new Big and how so very cool he was. Cameron said things to Gerald like.. make sure you do good in school and how much he was like Gerald when he was a kid. That made all the difference in my son’s world...just one little visit.  If only people knew what a difference they could make in such a short time, this world would be a better place.
 
I want to thank Big brothers Big Sisters for doing what you do and being who you are. You have made a difference in yet another child's life and for a mother that is the best thing that could ever happen to her child.
 
Forever Grateful,
 
Paula