Words are limited when expressing GRATITUDE because nothing can measure the great benefit received through help in moments of helplessness, desolation, sadness, and depression. It is not only the physical or material need that a vulnerable human being faces, but a worse and more intense one: the spiritual need, that feeling of loneliness and abandonment, lifting your eyes only to see words that come and go, but are far from any action!

It is in such moments that the value of a helping hand is truly appreciated, especially one that, without knowing you, approaches, looks you in the eye, and with an almost divine degree of empathy, opens its arms, embraces you tightly, and says, “I understand, I know what you are going through… and I am here with all my being for you.” You feel their body vibrate and perceive the warmth of energy that flows in that hug, and moreover, the peace it transmits goes further, utilizing all their physical and material resources to provide you with well-being, healing for your soul, and your physical and material needs, and continues to accompany you throughout the process. Yes! Just like when you are under intensive medical care, they accompany you not only in the most difficult moment but through an unlimited time until your heart heals, and you can, by yourself, mobilize all the potential that God has granted you, which you were unable to see because you were vulnerable. This, exactly, my dear Yolanda Medrano, my dear Yoli, was my encounter with you through another great loving person who connected me with you when she perceived my discouragement, my dear Silvina Fernelius, and through you, continued receiving even more love from Julie Gluth…

Thank you for supporting and upholding my entire family, for motivating my daughters to be strong and entrepreneurial when I lost my strength. They were at a difficult age to face, and you, Healing Hearts, welcomed and watched over them at the moment when they were about to embark on their journey as teenagers. Your love and motivation to my husband and the help you provided to regain confidence and faith in my own faith, in my strength, and potential, today I am going little by little, still with ups and downs but being able to sustain my flight and push, guide those who need me.

Thank you, Yoli, to all of you, including your family, who supported me with love, even covering the basic needs of food and supplies for my home and ourselves. You also taught us afterward to help however we could, as we felt, to people we didn’t know, to feed those in need regardless of the reason they were in that situation, to give without asking, to give without receiving… simply giving ourselves willingly to the needs of others. We can’t always be there, but from our trench, you motivated us to share what we have with those who, like us, needed it at some point.

Yoli, I will never forget that first hug you gave me and that feeling of being on safe ground, among friends, among family! And then gradually hugging the rest of my family, of my nest.

God bless you always and bless each one who makes up Healing Hearts! God bless your family