Lifted Up and Out and Into...

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21 years ago, I couldn't imagine walking with both of our moms and my dad through cancer diagnosis', treatments, hospice and death followed by grief and a whole lot of years of recovery. We make our plans but it is God who orders our steps. Would I have chosen these circumstances which God clearly deemed necessary? Never! Seriously ya'll, there's no chance at all we could've lifted ourselves Up and Out and Into this Wonderful Life God has given us as Believers!

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