We all have dreams, hopes and desires... some are answered in the living of our lives, some remain unreachable, and some, although perhaps not understood fully at the time that we imagine them, remain as possible as we allow them to become.

The most difficult step in achieving a dream is the first, for the mountain may not seem possible to climb when gazed from below. If we take that step, and then another and then another, we often have reached the top without knowing.

This is a world filled with so many in need, so many who suffer and are unable to find help, or often hope. I have been given so very much, and perhaps, by reaching out to my dream, I have helped another. What I do know is that I am the one who has been truly blessed with my mission trips. For nothing is impossible, if directed by God. And all gifts are truly God given.

-- Sylvia D. Campbell, MD FACS