tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876025621076336201.post3896119082662810103..comments2023-07-22T08:34:08.016-04:00Comments on Moments of Pause: One Word, Three Stories, Spread it.Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09451958236636719292noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876025621076336201.post-39498180545534612322014-08-30T15:19:56.234-04:002014-08-30T15:19:56.234-04:00Thank you so much for sharing this Debby! Praying...Thank you so much for sharing this Debby! Praying for your blog friend too! :-( I recently found out a friend's daughter (age 7) has liver cancer and is home with hospice. :-( So very sad... (((hugs))) L<br />Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09451958236636719292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876025621076336201.post-81588826098587327682014-08-30T15:19:00.481-04:002014-08-30T15:19:00.481-04:00I am so very, very sorry to hear your story. I kn...I am so very, very sorry to hear your story. I know for me we had a season of that (not what you went through) but cancer, death, loss of a child, loss of faith~ Somehow we live. Breathing in and out and sometimes there's a quiet moment in there where we can find joy. It may be the way the sky looks one summer day or a butterfly that swims around us. I think there is good and bad in every day. I think to find the joy (even the tiniest) can help us begin to see more joy. Perhaps a journal where we find something to be thankful for... shelter (when there are millions who would die for that), clean water to drink... etc. I think the hardest thing for me to accept is that there are those in our lives (sometimes those we love very much) that for whatever reason reject us, can't find it in themselves to forgive. You need to forgive yourself. Know that you have worth and you have value. There is a reason why you have overcome so much~ there is something good in store for you. Hang on, and if you ever need to 'talk' please don't hesitate. I am so very, very sorry and wish you the best!!!Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09451958236636719292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876025621076336201.post-22636329240554405482014-08-30T14:36:14.499-04:002014-08-30T14:36:14.499-04:00I trained most of my 20's to become a doctor. ...I trained most of my 20's to become a doctor. I became ill early on but managed to finish. One disease, then another. Then loss of my career, my independence, the first and only home I ever purchased, friends, my identity. A move back in with my parents in my mid 30's so they could help care for me. Another very rare disease at 39. Untreatable. Incurable. Terminal? Nobody could say. Multiple complications and multiple close calls with death. Loss of beloved pet a couple years later, and another 3 years later. Always fighting for my life, fighting the odds.Then, last year my mother heard the word cancer. She died Sept. 4, 2013. She was 68. After her funeral, one of my 2 siblings disowned my father and me. Lost a brother, a sister-in-law and a niece, and the opportunity to meet the child they were expecting. I have reached out to no avail. It is 6 days until the one year anniversary of my mom's death. I still fight for my life. I have a cat who is 19 and I don't think she will live much longer. My brother and his family have made it clear the severed ties are permanent, or at least not likely to change in the next few years; as they say, it takes some people more time to forgive. How does one deal with holes that are so large they almost feel like they are nothing but raw, aching emptiness? I treasure life too much to ever waste a day of mine, but most days I feel broken, or at the least can't find the joy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8876025621076336201.post-85058639947255517782014-07-23T14:58:21.931-04:002014-07-23T14:58:21.931-04:00This post touched my heart in so many ways. Thank ...This post touched my heart in so many ways. Thank you for sharing their stories and I will be saying their names in my prayers. ((HUGS)) I have a blog friend who just wrote about Mesothelioma and shared her story. http://stillmagnolias.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-moment-for-mesothelioma.html<br />Debby@Just Breathehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685398064340027809noreply@blogger.com