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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)

8.30.2012

Living through Suffering

"We aren't just thrown on this earth like dice tossed across the table. We are sovereignly and lovingly placed here for a purpose.

God has given us a purpose for our existence, a reason to go on, even though that existence includes tough times.  Living through suffering, we become sanctified--in other words, set apart for the glory of God.  We gain perspective.  We grow deeper.  We grow up!"
                                                                             ----Charles Stanley
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8.03.2012

"Earthly life may hold pain and anguish, abandonment and few faithful friends, but when it is over, joy will be ours--one so great that all sorrow is forgotten forever.  Perhaps that is why we must get new bodies at the resurrection; our mortal bodies cannot contain such intense joy.  As my friend lost her battle with cancer, those close to her were comforted to know the best was yet to come for her, and for us as believers." by Ginger Garrett
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