I heard this song on KDCR FM today on my way home from work. Isn't it neat how God uses music to speak to us? This song is one I needed to hear today. Last night a young wife and mother died after a long, hard battle with cancer. I didn't know her as an adult, yet I remember her as a girl. I was older than her in school and she rode my bus. I always thought she was the prettiest little girl...she had the neatest color of eyes...blue/green and they stood out like stars. I now think of her husband and four-year-old daughter...
It also makes me think of a classmate of Sam. Her Dad has been battling cancer for two years...it looks now like the cancer is winning. This father is my age and has a wife and three young daughters...
In both Jen and Rodney's Caring Bridge sites it recounts their treatments and pain, yet also their praises. Praises with cancer? Praises for communities that rally around them, praises for the many lives their stories have touched, praises for the opportunity to tell others that there is hope...hope for healing...and hope in Jesus if healing doesn't come.
Easter has just past. Yet, the hope of Easter lives on in our Resurrected Savior. As difficult as seeing these young ones suffer, leave behind little ones; we know there is still beauty. Beauty in ashes. Please join me in keeping these families in your thoughts and prayers.
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