Bring Tori home with your hope, love, and prayers

April 15, 2009 in Uncategorized

Ruth Davis, a longtime reader of 37days wrote today, attaching this photograph:

The attached photo is of Victoria (Tori) Stafford. She is an 8 year old member of my community and never returned home from school last Wednesday. They believe now, that she has been abducted. I do not know her but my heart is heavy as if she were my own. I feel useless as to what I can do to bring her home. Since you have such a loving, caring readership of your blog, I was wondering if you would mind posting her precious little picture and ask for hope, love and prayers to bring Tori home safe.

Please join me in praying for Tori's safe return home. She is from Woodstock, Ontario, Canada. If you don't pray, dance your special dance or light your magic candle or put her name in a tiny box or in your wallet and carry it with you. Whatever it is you do to create positive energy, please do it in Tori's name.

This is unimaginable, unthinkable, and yet it has happened.

Look at that beautiful face.

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Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.

7 comments to " Bring Tori home with your hope, love, and prayers "


Mama Kelly

April 15, 2009 AT 7:35PM

OMGs – how horrible …. may the Divine light the way so that she be found safe and unharmed

Kelly Warren

April 15, 2009 AT 8:08PM

breaks my heart. sending prayers up.

8thdayplanner

April 15, 2009 AT 8:24PM

Hands together and fingers crossed

sidhesays

April 15, 2009 AT 9:05PM

I live not far from Woodstock, and I`ve been keeping my eyes open, despite being 45 minutes away. I can`t imagine what her parents are going through.

::lighting a candle on my altar::

sally

April 16, 2009 AT 9:45AM

She’s in my box and my thoughts. She looks scarily like my daughter will in 2 years….

Acausal Connection

April 16, 2009 AT 11:13AM

To have something happen to one of my children has always been among my greatest fears in life. She and her family have my prayers.

JANET TURNER - HATHAWAY

May 5, 2009 AT 11:02AM

DEAR TORIS’ FAMILY AND LOVED ONES, MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU AND TORI SHE IS IN MY PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS. I LOST MY SON AT BIRTH ALMOST 5 YEARS AGO, I CANNOT IMAGINE THE PAIN YOU ARE GOING THROUGH NOT KNOWING WHERE YOUR DAUGHTER IS, ALL WE CAN DO IS HOPE AND PRAY SHE IS RETURNED SAFELY. I SHARE YOUR PAIN AND SUFFERING, YOUR FRIEND IN THOUGHTS JANET – CHATHAM- ONTARIO – CANADA