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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)

7.01.2008

Monday was a busy day! Mike and I were up late last night trying to process everything that had taken place in the last few days and feeling so overwhelmingly grateful.

Mike learned yesterday Goody's Russellville Distribution Center will completely close their doors July 11th. We are tremendously blessed for God providing a part time position for Mike, especially before Goody’s doors actually close. In fact, he stopped by the new job yesterday just to say hi and to thank them for the opportunity.

As Goody's comes to a close, Mike is beginning to feel a little down, saying goodbye to friends there, and saying goodbye to a "normal" way of working for awhile. This isn’t Mike’s first layoff, but it is his first having cancer, and not being strong enough to go out and get another full time job. Mike is strong and will get through all of this, but I wanted to ask you to join me in praying that his heart will stay encouraged and hopeful.

Our blog was mainly set up to keep family and friends updated on Mike's health and to help them know how to pray for him and our family. But a blog, can have a wide audience, and there have been a few things taking place simultaneously with Mike's health problems, that I haven't felt as free to share with a world wide audience. A couple of those issues, have been some health issues of my own, and some legal matters I've been dealing with since my dad passed away last August. Neither one of these issues deserves too much attention on this blog. But last night, as Mike and I were feeling deeply grateful for God answering prayer in these small issues, I couldn't help but wonder, maybe I was denying full praise to Him.

God has shown His mercy to us, time and time again, in areas blogged and unblogged. “He is the air that we breath and the ground beneath our feet.” He has sustained us with his mercy and grace, and your prayers have been paramount in supporting us. Thank you for loving us through all of this.

Tomorrow is "Chemo Day". So may every drop of those chemicals do a Mighty blessing in Mike's body!

"Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; FOR YOU, LORD, deliver him in times of trouble. You, Lord, will protect him and preserve his life; You will bless him in the land and not surrender him to the desire of his foes." Psalm 41:1-3
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