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I want you to know how awesome you are. If nobody’s told you that lately, I’m telling you now.

You’re awesome.

I want to thank you SO MUCH, knowing I could never thank you enough…

The way so many of you, some of you we hardly know, have stepped up to surround our family with love and support, with financial gifts, and with many, many, magnificent meals- You all amaze me.

From the beginning of this hard journey, you’ve been there. You were there with offers of babysitting on surgery day. You were there picking up several children at a time for play days, so I could be at the hospital with Ian. You were there night after night, after crazy hard night, with incredible homemade meals, warm and ready to eat. Thank you.

That pantry blessing? You blessed so much more than our pantry- you blessed our hearts, more than I can say. Thank you.

Your e-mails and text messages have been so encouraging, so often little rays of sunshine, gifts from the Lord, on so many of our long and dreary days, days filled with long drives to the hospital, hard talks with oncologists, and hearts aching and scared. Thank you.

When you rallied together to pay for the van repairs needed to make our long trip to Indiana, before we arrived to pick up our van- we were speechless, well, except for the crying. That gesture rocked us to our core. We were blown away by your generosity, so thankful, so humbled. We were, and still are, so grateful, to God and to you, you blessed community of amazing homeschool families. Thank you.

When we arrived home from Indiana, you were right there, picking up where we left off, with meals, offers of play dates, and best of all, your smiles, and hugs, and friendship at co-op. It’s been so good to connect, and to see your lovely faces these past months when we’ve been able to make it to co-op. Those relationships have been friendly anchors for our children through this time when their lives have been sort of like stormy seas. Thank you.

And those of you who aren’t involved in co-op, but have blessed us with meals, and cards, and love- Thank you. (And we miss spending time with you! Maybe this summer?)

I keep thinking about the Footprints poem, and how these past many months have surely been a time of only one set of footprints in the sand. They’re His footprints, surely, for I know I have not been strong enough to walk through this. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Lord has been carrying us through this season, and I believe, with all my heart, that He has been using you to do it. The Lord works through His people, and you amazing homeschool families, along with our own families, and our church family- you have been the hands and feet of Jesus to us, and we thank you, so, so, much! Thank you for being vessels, for allowing Him to use you, to work through you, to touch one family, our family. Thank you.

You’re awesome! Because He is awesome!

He’s just so good, isn’t He?!

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Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 14:27

It’s hard not to worry. I’m a mother. Worry comes naturally…

For I the Lord the God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Isaiah 41:13

It’s hard not to keep hearing that doctor’s words, “This is his one shot. If his cancer comes back, he most likely will not survive.” She went on to tell me that they haven’t had a recurrent Medulloblastoma survivor in the 17 years that she’s worked for Children’s oncology.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24

Clean scans, that’s what we’re praying for, clean scans!

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7

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