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Kenadie Jourdin-Bromley, known around the world as “the littlest angel”, was born Feb.13, 2003, weighing just 2 lbs, 8 ounces.

Doctors were at a loss as to why she was born so small and told her parents this little miracle baby likely wouldn’t live through the night. But she did.

She continued to defy doctors expectations and at the age of 8 months, Kenadie was finally diagnosed with primordial dwarfism, a genetic condition that is believed to affect only about 100 people in the world. She isn’t expected to grow past about 30 inches or weigh more than 8 pounds.

But from the day Kenadie was born her parents, Brianne Jourdin and Court Bromley, refused to give up. As they say, “We loved life right into her.”

Indeed, they did.

Nearing the age of four, Kenadie now walks, runs, laughs, smiles and is beginning to talk. But, perhaps more importantly, it’s the way Kenadie makes people feel that is her strongest achievement. Those who come into contact with her invariably believe that they have been touched by God, that somehow this little angel has touched their soul.

She may be small but no one would argue that this little girl has an enormous effect on people throughout the world.

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I wanted to post a photo, but the family seems pretty protective of what they posted; but I encourage to take a look at this amazing little girl.

1. Patch a radiator hose
2. Protect your computer
3. Rescue a boater who has capsized
4. Frame a wall
5. Retouch digital photos
6. Back up a trailer
7. Build a campfire
8. Fix a dead outlet
9. Navigate with a map and compass
10. Use a torque wrench
11. Sharpen a knife
12. Perform CPR
13. Fillet a fish
14. Maneuver a car out of a skid
15. Get a car unstuck
16. Back up data
17. Paint a room
18. Mix concrete
19. Clean a bolt-action rifle
20. Change oil and filter
21. Hook up an HDTV
22. Bleed brakes
23. Paddle a canoe
24. Fix a bike flat
25. Extend your wireless network

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DEER LAKE Phan This Kim Phuc has every reason to be filled with bitterness and hate.

But Kim, who became known around the world in 1972 when she was photographed fleeing her burning South Vietnamese village, has found peace and purpose through forgiveness.

In the famous photograph, Kim is seen fleeing her village after a U.S. Air Force plane dropped napalm incendiary bombs during the height of the Vietnam war; her clothes and much of her skin have been burned off by the fireball that engulfed her village.

The photographer who captured the picture, which helped turn the tide of public opinion against the American involvement in the war, rushed Kim to a South Vietnamese hospital. Against all odds, she survived, despite suffering third degree burns on more than half her body.

Her life was forever changed that day, and she was left with agonizing pain, brutal scarring and a heart full of hate.

Her resentment grew when the communist government of Vietnam decided to make her a poster girl for the atrocities of the war. After years of suffering under Communist repression, she and her husband Toan defected to Canada on a stopover at Gander airport in 1982 from a flight bound to Havana from Moscow — where the newlyweds had been granted a short honeymoon by the communist regime.

She’s returned to Newfoundland after 15 years to tell her story around the province.

Kim credits the teachings of the Christian gospel with her salvation and her ability to let go of the anger and resentment, which she said poisoned her heart.

“I learned that forgiveness is far more powerful than any weapon of war,” Kim told an enraptured audience at the Deer Lake Motel Thursday.

“If the little girl in that picture can do it, then you can do it too.

“I knew that I had been saved that day because I had a higher purpose in life,” said. “Having known suffering and agony, I now know the value of reaching out to help others.

“Having known war, I now know the value of peace. Having lived with pain, I know the value of love. Having lost everything, I now know the value of cherishing everything I have that’s important and having known hatred, I now know the value and the power of faith and forgiveness.”

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