About a week ago I got a call from a woman in Hawaii who was looking for a gift basket to be delivered to her parents- who live about a mile from me.  We talked a bit and it turns out her dad is very sick with cancer and they had just started hospice that […]

So I’ve had a crappy week or so.  I hate it when people say that and don’t say why- but that’s just the premise for the rest of the story.  So I’ve been wallowing a bit and wondering why I don’t feel like I’m getting any answers and why nothing seems to be […]

 
You learn a lot about a person when you see them face a tragedy. It can bring out the worst in a person- or it can bring out the best.  As I watched my friend’s deal very publicly with their personal tragedy I saw grace, forgiveness and was awed by their testimony of Christ shining […]

I haven’t stopped crying since Saturday.  I alternate between wanting to hide in my room with the door shut and needing all of my girls with me so I know they’re safe.  Things like this aren’t supposed to happen.  Good parents aren’t supposed to lose kids.  Kids who are healthy and happy and playing at […]

The news is good. We were at first told he was completely brain dead- but now we know that to be untrue. He had already had surgery in Guatemala to remove some skull fragments but was awake and talking. He’s suffering from some long term and short term memory loss- and it took […]