"Walk On"

Exactly 5 years ago we were sitting in a hospital room at OU/children's hospital.  Our world as we knew had just come to a hault, we had just been told that our 8 year old son had leukemia.  As I sit here today, it is hard to believe that it was 5 years ago, but maybe what is even harder to believe is that exactly 3 years ago we were doing the same thing.....only this time Mitch was 10, the cancer was back and this time it was back with a vengence.....6 weeks later Mitch was with his Heavenly Father.

Next month it will be 3 years since Mitch passed away.  On one end, John and I's world stand stills and on the other, time flies as this month Meredith will turn 11, an age her brother never made it to......

I came across a devotion I wanted to share, I found it very fitting.  John and I had a conversation a while back.  I had just given him news that we(GoMitchGo Foundation) had just raised $6000 more dollars in Mitchell's honor to go towards research to find a cure(We have now raised close to $400,000 almost half way to our 1 million $ goal).  His response was "You know we could have decided to just blend into the woodwork." And we COULD have....believe me there have been those times where we could have and wanted just crawl under the nearest rug and sit down and quit,  but with the grace of God and the love and support of family and friends we have "Walked On" or as Team Whitaker likes to say it "Kept Fighting."

I hope you will find strength in this devotion as I did. As always, "Keep Fighting"

Tracy

"You have rescued me from death; you have kept my feet from slipping.  So now I can walk in your presence, O God, in your life-giving light." Psalms 56:13

Walk On!

One of my frineds has experienced the death of two children; another friend has two prodigals.  Though both her children were raised with the truth, they are far from living it; one has declared himself an atheist.

  With many trials, the pain feels compounded because one crisis often produces a financial crisis; the pressures mount, and you have a marital crisis!

  One of my friends going through a crisis game me a card that she said had helped her.  The front said, "When you feel as if you are going through hell," and the inside read, " keep walking!"

  There's much to be said for this stark advice.  Keep walking.  Keep putting one foot in front of the other.  Keep holding on to Jesus one moment at a time.  Keep standing when you want to sit and quit.

  Bathsheba in the bible did this.  The most powerful man in her world saw her in her most private moment(taking a bath), called for  her, and then convince her to sleep with him.  Her husband was at war, and when the king called him home to cover up the pregnancy that resulted from the king's night of sin, the loyal man would not sleep with his wife.  So the king had him sent to the front lines, where he was killed.

  David and Bathsheba's baby died shrotly after birth.  All that is enough to crush even the strongest woman.  But Bathsheba mourned, then she married the king and later gave birth to the next king of Israel, who went on to build the first Temple of God.

  Keep walking.

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