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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)

12.30.2009

"All your waves and breakers have swept over me.
By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me--
a prayer to the God of my life." 
Psalm 42:7b-8


"Nothing slips between His fingers without His permission, for He is the King of the universe.  Even destructive floodwaters are His, for "the Lord sits enthroned over the flood, the Lord is throned as King forever" Psalm 29:10"'


"God has not lost control.  He has allowed the waves for a purpose: to cleanse or to comfort, to awaken us from our apathy or to sweep over the enemy pursuing us.  They are His waves and He knows what He is doing, even when we do not."  Dee Brestin

I am trying to do something proactive in the midst of this pain in my life.  I was inspired by my sister's book club, when I was in Midland, to begin something for myself, to help fill some of those empty spaces in my life.  I'm beginning a club, with a few of my lady friends, named the "Joyful Heart Club", where we can fellowship once a month, by doing a few things like going to a movie, eating dinner out somewhere, going shopping, or just chatting at someones home. I'm not sure how the turnout will be, but I know the fellowship should be sweet, at least for me.  One of the hardest things for me right now is the stark quietness in my home.

I know my posts have been very heavy and concerning for my friends and family, and they are far from over, I'm sure.  But I want to reassure everyone, I am working hard to get through all of this grief.  I appreciate your continued thoughts and prayers as I continue to get hit by the waves.
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