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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)

12.22.2008

Merry Christmas

We were almost at the point believing prayer was going to be our only option to help Mike with his chemical imbalance, since we learned late last week that several of the medications that help with this, can be dangerous to the liver. We certainly have our hands already full with a cantankerous liver. :) But we learned this morning that there were other options we had, and Mike began taking his new medication today. Hopefully he will feel the benefits of it before too long. We've been told it can take 4-5 weeks before things will level out, and he'll begin to feel better. Besides this, Mike's other symptoms seem to be under control, and he continues to do well.

We have Mike's sister and brother-in-law coming into town this Christmas, as well as my sister and her husband. We know it will be a sweet time of fellowship as we watch Ethan and Drew celebrate Christmas, and just all of us being together as a family. We pray Mike's mom will be able to leave the nursing home she lives at, to come home and be together with us too.

I just want to tell all of you how much Mike and I love you for standing with us in this fight against Mike's cancer. Everyone of you have been helping us keep one foot in front of the other, most especially at times, when that was the most difficult thing for us to do. You have also given to us so unselfishly, with such a servants heart, and have shown us God's mercy and faithfulness through your loving hands. We are deeply touched by your kindness to our family. We pray God will doubly bless your lives this Christmas, as you and God have blessed ours.

"The work of praying is prerequistite to all other work in the kingdom of God. By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible." O. Hallesby

With God all things are possible! Matthew 19:26
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