Amanda's SONG (Standing On New Ground)

Shanna Eugenio is organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Elizabeth McDonald.

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My cousin, Amanda McDonald, was such a beautiful soul. An Earthbound angel that the Heavenly Father lent to us for just a short while, she was called home in the early morning hours of June 2, 2020 from a fentanyl laced heroin overdose. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Dorothy and Lee McDonald and her Uncle Randy McDonald, in addition to her great grandma and great grandpa McDonald and Her grandma and grandad Masden. She is survived by her mother, Betsy McDonald, her daughters, Rileigh Smith and Alyssa Botz, and a family of aunts, uncles and cousins who love her dearly. Our family will never be the same again, but hopefully we will heal in time. However, we don't want her loss to be in vain. So many people are struggling with some form of addiction right now, and in these difficult times, even those who have fought hard for sobriety, like Amanda had for years, are struggling to stay clean and sober. Some of them lose the struggle. And, as my Aunt Connie said, they're not "losing the struggle because they are weak, but because the drugs/alcohol are just stronger" than we are sometimes. I thought a lot about that last night, in between suffocating bouts of grief, and today I realized that is probably the best explanation for what happened to Amanda and others like her who have lost their battle with addiction. Addiction is a disease unlike any other. It's a disease that tears families apart, rippping through them like the very worst cancer you can imagine; devouring even the best of people. Addiction isn't black or white. It transcends race, gender, economic status, orientation, and social positions. People drink or "get high" for a number of reasons: experimentation, stress, grief, trauma, loss. The list of reasons is as endless as the number of lives this disease has claimed and families destroyed. My family wants to heal while honoring Amanda's memory by helping someone else with an addiction get the help, guidance and support they need to get clean and sober. We are setting up a fundraiser to not only help Amanda's mother pay for her daughter's final arrangements, but to try to help as many addicts as we can to be able to seek the treatments they need, not to just get clean and sober and to heal, but to STAY that way. We are calling the fundraiser Amanda's SONG, (Standing On New Ground). Any amount over the cost of the funeral expenses will be paid to a treatment center directly to help someone in Amanda's shoes to learn the tools they need to conquer this diabolical disease and live a clean life, free from drugs. Please take five minutes to donate whatever you can, and if you wish, share with us the name of an addict in your life that you would like us to pray for, to find recovery and peace. I know this is a difficult time financially for many people, so if you can't afford to donate money, share this fundraiser with as many as you can. Let's sing Amanda's SONG together. Even if only one life is saved, it's worth every penny. No mother should ever have to lose their child, their angel to this senseless disease. No parent should outlive their child because of addiction. No sister, brother, cousin, aunt, uncle, or friend should have to lose someone they love to this cruelty. No family should have to bear this grief. We need at least 1,000 people to donate $10. Let's make this a movement.....Sing Amanda's SONG with us, please, and help us save someone else's daughter or son from addiction.
Amanda's Song:
Your smile lit up any room,
Your laugh always infectious.
You were your momma's blue eyed girl.
So beautiful, so precious.

An Angel from the first breath taken.
Your momma thought you hung the moon.
But today your momma's heart is breakin'
Her sweet Amanda has flown home too soon.

Even with a broken wing,
You'd fly up and touch the sun.
Now your wings are whole and flying,
To the Kingdom of the Father and the Son.

An Angel from the first breath taken,
Your momma thought you hung the moon.
But today your momma's heart is breakin'
Her sweet Amanda has flown home too soon.

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