Heartache

My sister Sarah and her boyfriend, Jason, were driving to Phoenix last night to be with his mom.  His mom, Mary, has cancer.  It started in her breasts, then moved into her skeletal system, and about a month ago they found out that it had spread to her brain.  She developed a pneumonia and was admitted to the ICU yesterday, so Sarah and Jason were driving to be with her, not knowing how much time she had left.  Half way to Phoenix they got a call.  Mary had passed.  Obviously, Sarah and Jason are devastated.  Sarah had never had the opportunity to meet Mary, and it's been awhile since Jason had seen her, too.

On a smaller scale, I feel their pain.  My heart aches.  Cancer is horrible.  Learning that a loved one has cancer and that in time it will take their life is one of the most heart breaking things you can go through...let alone when the cancer finally wins and that loved one is taken from this world.

I never knew Mary.  I don't even know anything about her.  But Jason is her son and we love Jason.  He is one of the good ones.  So Mary had to be a pretty dang good mother to raise him to be the great man that he is today.

We love you Sarah and Jason.  And we pray that you can feel some peace and comfort knowing that Mary is with our Heavenly Father and finally out of pain.  He loves you.  Turn to Him when everything starts to feel unbearable.