I have stated many times on this blog just how Blessed I am in my home. My wife and I have had horrible things hearled our way during this life together but the power of God see’s us through. Do we like it ? Nope.  Has it helped us? Yes.

I have an incredible family, from my great grand parents to everyone in my life today. Are they perfect ? Nope.  But they are perfect in their imperfection. 

They love, they cry, they feel for others, they pray for everyone they are beautiful people. Amen.

I have many friends who are truely like family to us here , they always have been.

You know, when I was diagnosed with the terminal cancer 2.9 years ago or so, We received phone calls left and right for offers of assistance in so many different ways.

One call was to find out if we needed help with insurance and hospital expenses our friends  were here for us. They were sincere in their offer too.

We did not want to accept help, we wanted to do as we always had done and manage things on our own. You know, when your younger and starting out and your mom and dad says hey kids I want to try and help you out when they see a need then you are more apt to accept it. My parents did that over the years, they were always the best, my dad is still here and he is my hero. 🙂

But when you receive an offer from friends it is easy to say no. Because we know their lives and expenses etc. I also worked from a position of pride in this situation. I was the master of my ship, I was the fixer, the doer for many. I was not the one who was on the rocks in my mind , but in reality Cancer pushed me up onto them in a profound way ! Denial would not work for me in this situation.

Guess what. I was on the rocks thanks to life. The same friends who offered to help with insurance and medical cost when they found out that our insurance was good thanks to my wifes employer they prayed on it and sent a check to help us anyway. Their was a lovely note saying that they wanted us to pray on their gift and to please accept this offering. You see they are prayerful people as are we. But they are also humans so they knew who I was as a person and how to approach our situation and need. They allowed us our pride in this situation.  They explained that God called them to do this. That they were giving part of their….Tithe  to us during that time.