hope

Oh, so behind on pictures for July...and lots of other things in my life.
Someday I will catch up.
But don't we spend our whole lives telling ourselves that???

For now, I wanted to send you somewhere else...

If you read my post about little Kate, you know about this little 5 year old girl who needs prayers. And so do her mommy and daddy.

I continue to check Kate's Caringbridge journal everyday. Reading and hurting with her family. Hearing and hurting for the new life they all are living. Praying for each request her mom and dad leave...the praises and the needs.

I know some of you check this too and I know you are praying.

You may or may not have found Kate's dad, Aaron's blog. Here's the link.
I just spent some time there and am just feeling led to send you there too, for a series of posts he is writing...

"hating cancer is making me yearn more for heaven"
"hating cancer is making me more genuinely value the Father's love"
"hating cancer is making me plunge deeper into the Gospel of Jesus"

I know, I know, you read those titles and think "WHY would I want to go read that depressing stuff, I don't feel like crying or feeling sad right now"
I promise I am not sending you there to make you cry or to cause you to sit and be depressed the rest of the day. Honestly, it may cause the complete opposite. It did for me.

Aaron's words offer SOOO much hope. If anything on this earth can take away the sting of sickness, pain, and death.....it's the hope that he speaks of in these posts that can.

He's also connecting his thoughts and words to songs...so you can listen to the songs he has chosen to go with each post.

I realize we are still human...we will feel the pain and suffering of this earth no matter what.
But thank goodness, for those who have accepted the most precious gift of all....this life is temporary....pain is temporary...we are only passing through.

We have hope. And this hope can get us through the darkest of dark days and the most painful of painful times.

Jesus conquered death.....so that we can live.