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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)

7.09.2008

Matt's interview this morning with ANO went well. There was a panel of four men who interviewed Matt, and he feels he did his very best. He told me he has a peace about everything, and just feels grateful to have the stress behind him. He was told he would have an answer within 10 days.

The other position, that he went to Nashville for, is undetermined still. Matt was led to believe that trip was only a formality in receiving the offer, but Matt met with two men up there, and took a physical and drug test before returning home. He was told he should hear about a decision within a week.

Thank you so much for praying for Matt, and for Mike's mom, Cecile. We spoke again with mom last night, and she is feeling so much better.

Mike is feeling much better today physically. The side effects from the chemo have finally tapered off, and he's back to feeling his "new normal", as he calls it. Thank you for keeping us lifted by your prayers.

"Let your roots grow down into Him and draw up nourishment from Him. See that you go on growing in the Lord, and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all He has done." Colossians 2:7

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