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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)

3.04.2009

Taking Things Day by Day

Mike and I were discussing our present situation, and how the events from the past 2 years blindsighted us, so to say. I guess cancer had been such a far off threat for us over the last 27 years, we had let our guard down. We allowed ourselves to have long term plans....short range goals....and a limitless amount of dreams. Today, the farthest we can look to the future for, is taking things day by day. In the past, "taking things day by day" only meant we were dealing with a situation where the answers might be a few days down the road.

Life recently has been a huge exercise of finding and maintaining the right perspective. Staring fear in the face with the strength, only God, faith and prayers can give us. The unknowns in our life try to consume and overpower us daily. The emotional challenges can almost be as exhausting as the physical battles. But God's strength and love is greater than all of our fears. He brings the power and comfort we need each day to keep going. And there is one thing we can rest our weary hearts on...and that is spending eternity with our Heavenly Father.

Mike continues to do well. He is such a fighter!

And God's grace and mercy is sweeter everyday.
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