Our sons have grown to be two terrific young men of whom I am so proud. Now, I understand that Diane and I didn't do everything politically correct according to all of those child rearing books. I can remember a time when they were small and they would occasionally like to have a "pity party." Nowadays I suppose that is called a "lack of self esteem." I guess that we could have been more compassionate, but many times when one of them wanted to whine about how life was treating them we would sing the song, "everybody hates me, nobody likes me, think I'll go eat worms." I know, that doesn't sound very warm and fuzzy, more sarcastic than anything else, but it certainly got our point across for Brad and Gabe to look at things differently.
Over these past months a pity party from lack of friends has not been necessary on our part. People from all walks of life have shown us so much support in so many ways. During these past days since we shared our news that our cancer journey is taking us to Houston Texas many people again have stepped up with words of encouragement, reminders that they are praying for us, and offers to help us in other ways. There are never enough words to express how much love we feel from other people.
It won't be necessary for us to go eat worms. We are blessed!
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