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In 2007, I began my original website, Sonshine's Haven. In 2007, it was turned into a blog and used to keep family updated on my first husband's fight with liver cancer. He passed away November of 2009. We were married for 34+ wonderful years and this journals some of that grief process I've gone through.

I have since remarried another widower, but Mike is missed dearly, and will always be a big part of my life.

At times, all of us will be called to act as witnesses to the suffering of another. We will be unable to affect the outcome physically. Words will fail us. Prayer will seem futile. And yet, the act of bearing witness to someone else's trials is a sacred sorrow that offers and astounding glimpse of eternal joy." by Ginger Garrett

"Being willing to stay with a loved one throughout their travail, can be difficult....YES! But offering yourselves as faithful companions on a dark and dreadful journey can be an unmeasured blessing." (paraphrased by me)

4.19.2008

Grace and Strength

Mike continues to feel better the further away from a treatment he gets.

We were already trying to steady ourselves for the CT Scan that will be done this coming Friday (April 25) in LR to measure his progress, when we got the news that the company our son just got his new job with in Jacksonville, decided to close their doors in May. He had only been there just a few weeks. Obviously, this has been a huge blow to them, and subsequently for our family. There may be a possibility of him staying on with the company, but if so, it would require our son and his family to move out of state. Normally, this would be easier to handle if Mike wasn't so sick. The news has just been very overwhelming, and the additional uncertainity and disappointment for them, has just been difficult for our family to deal with.

We continue to ask for your prayers for Mike, with his health, and we ask for the grace and strength needed, to accept whatever God's will is with the CT results, and also for our son's job situation. (For those who may not know....our son's name is Matt, his wife's name is Jill, and they are the parents of Drew, whom you often see in pictures or video with Mike. He has been the little fire cracker, and inspiration for Mike, many days since he's been sick.)
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