Lisa's Beautiful Speech

I was very moved by Lisa Domeny's opening speech at the Relay...Lisa actually came around to have a test run before the event and I knew then it was going to be well responded......Lisa did an awesome job and I felt we just had to add it to this site so we can relish in the words again and continue fighting cancer with Lisa's words as inspiration.

Lisa on behalf of the Macleay community we would like to thank you for your complete passion for this great cause in fighting cancer...along with your fantastic committee you all should be very proud of the outcome from the weekend...I am sure we will reach the $100 000 target as we are just under it now...well done!

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Lisa's Speech

          All my life I‘ve wanted to make a difference.

It has been something that has driven me since I was a child. Just to touch someone’s heart.

      Helen Keller once said that “I am only one, but still I am one.

I cannot do everything but

I can do something. And I will not let the something that I cannot do,

interfere with the something that I can do”

I guess what she was trying to say was that nobody can do everything,

but everyone can do something.

The reason that I brought this up is that I believe

that this need to make a difference is not a characteristic

that I alone have. I think that it is within all of us….the need to matter,

to count, to stand for something …above all to make some difference that we have lived at all

………surely there is no greater joy nor greater

reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life.

I would just like to say that each and every one of you this weekend

is going to make that difference.

Whether you walk one lap, or a hundred laps,

whether you raised one dollar or a thousand dollars,

you WILL: make a difference!!

You WILL touch someone’s heart.

You may never know whose heart

you touch but you know what, it doesn’t matter.

Because what we do for ourselves alone dies with

us but what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Hope is the underlying message of Relay For Life, I firmly believe Hope Happens…..

I actually looked up the definition of hope in the dictionary….

it is the belief that one’s desires may be attained. 

I hope that one day we will defeat cancer. Do I think that it is attainable…BLOODY OATH I DO!!

Hope may bend and twist, and sometimes it hides but rarely does it break.

It sustains us when nothing else can.

It gives us reason to continue, and courage to move ahead when we tell ourselves we’d rather give in.

It can be found in each of us and it can bring light into the darkest of places

For once you choose hope anything is possible.

SO on behalf of the RFL committee I would like to welcome all of you.

I sincerely hope that you enjoy Relay 2006. 

May the Angels among us embrace and guide you.

May you find strength, courage and hope with every step you take …….

And may you take time to enjoy the little things,

for one day you may look back and realize that they were the big things.

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