For the last several months I've been following closely to the blog Mundane Faithfulness. The author is Kara Tippetts she is the wife of a pastor in Colorado Springs, Colorado who was raising four beautiful children and starting a new church. She was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. She lived 2 years while fighting it. Unfortunately she lost her courageous battle yesterday afternoon.
The reason this story touches me so much, is I lived this story 43 years ago as the oldest child of a mother who also died of cancer, just like Kara's oldest child Ella who was about the same age I was when I lost my mom. I wish I could reach out to her (Ella) and her siblings and let them know that they will survive this horrible loss and that it will never be the same, but it will get better. At the time I thought I wouldn't be able to live without my mother but I found strength to battle on until it did get better. My mother, as Kara, instilled faith, hope, & love of Christ that is what got me through the rough times.
Kids have a way of bouncing back from things. Even though I miss my mother, always have always will, I know this is the path that God set me on and it may have been rough, it may have been hard, but it was the right path. I was supposed to grow up without my mother....as many children before me and after me will do it's what is supposed to happen, there is a reason for everything God does. It is for your benefit he allows things to happen they way they do.....embrace what you are going through, there really is a reason you have to go through this and only He knows why.
