Ever been involved in something bigger than yourself and wonder, "how on earth can we ever accomplish this?"
Ever felt something so deep in your heart that the only choice is to move forward, head down, throwing caution to the wind and hope for the best?
Well, that's what is happening in our loss community right now with the making and marketing of the film Return To Zero.
We, as a community, feel it in our bones: we want others to know that child loss IS happening. Everywhere. All the time. And that it is devastating. Life altering. To the point that those affected will NEVER be the same again. And those same people will need to grieve. Forever. Maybe not down in the dirt-covered in tears-everyday kind of grieving. But the kind of grief that those around us will have to understand that we aren't the same people anymore and need a bit of space sometimes. That our children are gone. And are never coming back and you just can't get over something like that.
Having a film be released in theaters for the world to see that loss does occur - is just the start. The start of society as a whole accepting that there are people called parents that lose children and they are all around us (one in four pregnancies ends in loss in the United States).
Getting a film into the theaters is also just the start. Please join me. Whether you've been touched by loss or not, I welcome you to take the pledge. To pledge to see the film in theaters if if is released. By pledging to see Return To Zero in theaters opening weekend when it shows in your town, you will prove to Hollywood that there is an audience for a film about this difficult but important subject matter.
If you are a bit more adventurous (LOL), please join me in signing up to be a "local leader."
By pledging to be a local leader (in my town in Texas) I will be pledging to get 100 pledges to see the movie. The RTZ team hopes to get 150,000 pledges by midnight on June 20th.
We can do this, right???
Please join me and pledge to get more pledges to see Return To Zero in theaters so that the Hollywood folks stop and take notice. That child loss is important to people. Not because it's sad but because we care about people. Unfortunately we all know someone (or will in the future) who has lost a child. It's just a fact. A horrible fact. And seeing a movie like this, on the big screen, may have an impact on a relationship you have to that grieving family. It may help you reconcile with yourself that your friends or family members WILL never be the same again and that you may need to show them that you remember their child that's in Heaven just a bit more - because it's important to THEM.
Thank you for reading and a "thank you in advance" for signing up.
Love
*This film specifically talks about still birth. Although I didn't have a still birth, but yet a miscarriage, makes my heart no less involved. Any one of my children could have died at birth or shortly before. I am pledging and blogging and talking and SPEAKING OUT LOUD about child loss because it's important to me and I do it in memory of my little Noah Joel, gone to be with Jesus too soon on March 26, 2008.
No comments:
Post a Comment