Last week my uncle passed away. It seems weird to move forward without acknowledging it, but at the same time it doesn’t even feel real. He fought a very valiant fight against pancreatic cancer and made all of us extremely proud by the way he carried himself from his diagnosis until the very end. He’s…
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We all can recount those traditional vows that many use to start off marriage: “…In sickness and in health…”. Battling sickness in a marriage is a huge undertaking, but we agreed to love each other through it in our marriage covenant. But what about mental illness? It’s not that we conveniently leave out that…
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I will never forget the surgeon pulling us into a consult room and saying the words that everyone hopes they never have to hear when they are being given a post-surgery update on a loved one – “we found the tumor to be cancerous”. It was in that moment that everything stopped. I looked around…
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