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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)

8.26.2008

Pressing Forward

Mike hasn't felt his best today but we're hoping it is just an "off" day and tomorrow will be better. His stomach has felt a little more sensitive, and he has had less energy, and felt a little chilled. Please pray that whatever is going on would be minor and that he'll feel better tomorrow.

We want to thank everyone for sharing this burden with us and for keeping us in your prayers for so many months. Your love and friendship have met every need we've had, and has been such a blessing to us!

We are set to go...at least we have our "physical" items ready to head for Houston. The emotional side of us is wavering a pinch, but if we've learned anything this past year, it is to press forward, and to continue trusting. So we press forward, knowing we have an army of saints and loved ones holding us up in prayer, and a Father in heaven who will keep us while we're away.


"We know You care about our sorrows; We know You share the aching of our heart; You taste our tears, You hold our hands. Our comfort, as we wait upon Your peace, is knowing that You are in this moment with us, leading us and loving us through it all. Our strength, as we rest within Your presence, is knowing that our God is the God who creates, the God who saves, the God who heals, the only God, the one God, who never fails." BJ Hoff

"Keep us safe, O God, for in You we take refuge." Psalm 16:1

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