I can't believe it's been one year since the heart transplant. I have thought about your family a lot this year. Every holiday and every milestone or set back we had in his recovery. I wondered all year when your son or daughters 17th birthday was because I know important and special dates are hard. I can't imagine what this past year has looked like for you.
My heart is heavy for you today, I'm mourning with you.
I hope today you feel peace, peace in knowing you have brought another family another year with their loved one. You see that loved one is my dad, my kids grandpa, he's a brother, he's a uncle and he's a friend. Your decision to donate life has brought so much more than another year. It's brought healing in so many ways. It's brought a second chance. It's brought Joy and a new understanding of God's love.
We may never meet but I pray circles around your family daily. I will continue to rally around my dad and fight for his strength, his health, his faith and his healing. I'm fighting in honor of your child and for my dad and his second chance of life. My dad's faith during this whole journey has been remarkable. I've prayed many, many, years for what I have experienced and seen in my dad the last 2 years. My dad is one strong fighter.
Thank you donor family. Thank you KU medical for your amazing heart team, nurses and doctors! Thank you friends and family who have prayed and walked alongside us. Thank you dad for not giving up and staying so strong and most importantly I'm thankful for God's love and mercy.
In the midst of a storm, God is still good. His promise still stands.
our testimony is not the Gospel. our testimony is how the gospel has transformed our hearts and our lives. Our purpose is to love God, love people and spread the Gospel.
Dad, keep fighting the good fight! we love you and are cheering you on. cheers to many many more years!
This song was my anthem song the past 2 years since my dads heart attack.
"Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20
" Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1:2-4
