~Life!~

Today's sermon really hit home tonight. How is it that I'm supposed to be thankful and thank God for everything happening in our lives right now, when nothing is good? Lets start at the beginning.


Last Sunday night my Uncle passed away, he had blood cancer. Its been a really rough battle for him, and for my family. And now, its over. I'm not really upset about it, we weren't that close. but Its still sad to have lost a member of our family so close to the holidays.

Then, Wednesday night I find out that my mother was in the Emergency room that day. They found spots on her lungs, and she had a biopsy on Thursday to find out if its lung cancer or not, and even though I'm not at all close to her, it doesn't mean I want anything bad to happen to her either.

Last night, we get a call that Jim's grandfather has been taken to the hospital. They ran a ton of tests, and found out he had a stroke. It was mild, and he seems to be doing ok. He's a little confused sometimes, but doesn't want to show it. He's a stubborn man, and doesn't ever want to be laid up, so that he can't do things for himself, but then, Who DOES want that?

Tonight we go up to the hospital, we really wanted to go this morning, but they didn't get Jim's grandpa into his room until 1:15am, so we thought waking him up would be a bad idea. So, we went to church this morning, and then I had to work 1-5. We went straight to the hospital after I got out of work, only to find out that Jim's aunt (Kristina's and Frank's mom) is in the hospital with a blood infection. It is something that could potentially be life threatening. She's got pools of blood under her skin, and could bleed to death internally if she bumps herself on something. So, I'm sure she'll be admitted to the hospital, and we'll be making several more trips to the hospital this week.

So, back to the sermon this morning. The pastor was telling us to be thankful for all things, and to find the positive side of everything that happens. Because it can always be worse. Its just hard to take this all in at once. Its hard to stand tall, and not fumble when this is all happening at once.

I'll put my faith in God, he's never proven to be wrong before!

But please keep my family and Jim's in your prayers. We need all the support we can get right now.



And on a happy note - Amanda completely rocks my socks!!!! We've(more like SHE!) has been spending a lot of time helping us design our save the dates, and we've come up with a design that I'm completely in love with. It's going to be a pain to make them all, rather than just printing the photo, but it looks so classy, and classic all at the same time! And its a HECK of a lot cheaper than buying save the dates online!

Now its onto our wedding invitation :-D


Thanks Amanda :)