Looks Like We Made It!

Today is our 46th wedding anniversary.  Five years ago today on our anniversary our lives were changed when we received the news that Ken had cancer.  It's funny how vivid memories are when they are associated with strong feeling or emotion.  It's like they imprint.  Cancer certainly wasn't ever in my life plan for myself or Ken.  I guess it isn't ever in anyones life plan--and that's why it catches us so unaware and in surprising ways and times.  Five years ago today I wasn't sure how long we would have together in this life.  It's funny how when something derails us from our plans, it's like getting off the wrong exit and having to wind your way without the help of google maps.  Looking back I wonder how I've changed, or if I have changed.  I know the scenery on the new route was not what I had planned.  How would I be different if cancer hadn't changed our course?  I guess I'll never know that for sure.  I know things I didn...

I have not ONE single photo to post today.  So this blog post will be short.  It's been a week of highs and lows.  Luckily today was a "high" day.  Myra, who was baptized two weeks ago had a crazy spiral over the missionary transfers.  She didn't realize how attached she became to the Elder who taught her and he was transferred 4 days after her baptism.  I've spent the last two weeks trying to help her through it.  Myra has  BPD and has struggles in relationships. (Matt, thanks for the little tutoring you have given me in the past on this--maybe it wasn't an accident that I was here right now.)   She knows she struggles with relationships.  She has a hard time keeping friends.  So when it happens that a "friend" appears to abandon her it sends her into a deep hole.  It's been exhausting, frustrating and a lot of work.  I've spent hours messaging with her, taking her to dinner, and trying to help her through it all....