Today, Maxwell and I celebrate four years since my cancer diagnosis. May we celebrate many more to come!

At times my heart is overwhelmed at the needs of friends in our community, living with cancer and struggling. I am so honored to be part of a mission that strives to lessen the load for our TRF friends. This past week we personally made a difference to Georgianna, Ruth, Karen, Barbara and Whona. Five people who are grateful and relieved to know they are not alone. Georgianna now has a compression sleeve to help with her pain, Ruth made it to all of her radiation appointments, and a by product her daughter Karen was able to continue looking for work, while we made sure Ruth made it to her appointments, on time, each day. Barbara was faced with discontinuing her pain treatments, due to unpaid co-pays, thanks to the generosity of those that give to TRF, we were able to cover her unpaid co-pays and she can now continue her treatment. Whona is doing everything he can to take care of his four children, and battle his cancer head on. His home was struck last week by lightening,  during one of the more aggressive storms. The lightening strike blew out his breaker and it came down to Whona paying for a new breaker so he could have power for he and his family or paying his car payment which enables him to get to his vital doctors appointments. We made that decision easy for Whona, we covered his car payment, so he can take care of his family. Person by person, family by family, we are carrying burdens and relieving friends in our community under great strain. Let us continue to trust God and continue giving of ourselves; we can only gain from that mindset.