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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)

10.13.2009

I hesitate blogging this late at night, because I always get more sentimental late at night.  But I'm just feeling so grateful following a visit with one of Mike's friends from Missouri this evening.  Mike worked with Kent years ago in Missouri, and he and his wife Terri have stayed in touch with us and been such a blessing. Ken is a truck driver and had a load needing to be delievered to this area, and spent the evening with us, laughing and talking. 

Family and friends make all the difference in situations like Mike's and mine.  That human contact...not really needing to say very much, but just giving those loving smiles and big hugs, minister to us deeply.  For those who live miles away, or those we are blessed to have near by; knowing your prayers and thoughts are with us, are like a huge patchwork quilt wrapped tightly around us in one big hug.  Thank you so much for caring so deeply about us.  We do not overlook the special things you do to show your feelings.  The blessings replay over and over in our hearts and mind, and God's goodness and mercy pours over us like a healing balm.

We will be leaving early in the morning for LR, for Mike's procedure at 8:30 a.m.  Mike's fear is that they won't find anything...causing the swallowing problem.  My fear is that they will find something.  So I don't know how to request prayer.  I just know we'll continue to trust God to walk through this journey with us and help us to live each day as it comes.

Love,
Beverly 
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