This is taken from Sallee's friend, Beth, and from Montie (via Sallee's blog)...
This is a picture of our friends Montie and Sallee Couch, they are fellow adoptive parents and dear friends of ours (more like family). I asked permission to share Montie's words here on my page...their family is still struggling with awful ovarian cancer. Sallee has gotten far worse here at the holidays. If you feel the desire to help them out I have attached a link to a PayPal donation button on Sallee's blog. Things were really tough for them this Christmas...Sallee was barely able to sit with the family in the morning and her pain meds are so strong she is disoriented. Because things have gotten so hard, Montie will NEED to stay at home with her these next days or weeks. He is self employed and ONLY gets paid when he works, so any financial donation will be a very tangible help for them.
www.itspoppydipblog.blogspot.com
www.takethemameal.com (if you would like to provide a meal) family:couch password:sallee
Here are Montie's very eloquent words! He is an inspiration to me and I promise you will be touched:
This Christmas, 2012, I reflect back upon the year, a year that has been marked with suffering.
Not that there has not been good times, I am a very blessed man.
I have six great kids and they bring great joy in my life.
I know they have kept me going, at times when I thought I could do no more.
But most of all, I have the greatest wife in the world. She is my best friend and knows me only second to my God.
At times I search for good out of all that we have been through.
First I see that it has brought us closer as a family. We have been forced to pull together and hold one another up. Though we all deal with Sallee's sickness differently, it all comes down to a single thing. You are forced to ask the question; why. Why did this happy? Why did God allow this?
I know God loves me and my family.
And its okay to ask God why.
I believe suffering is a mystery, at least to me, not to God. He has allowed it and He has a purpose. There will be answers one day, I am sure of that.
But for now we trust.
One great blessing that has come from all of this, is the opportunity to love my wife in a way that not many have the chance to.
Through caring and comforting her as we walk through this together.
If marriage is a picture God has given us of Christ, and His relationship with His people, then I can see a glimpse into the answer.
We as His people, are suffering through the plague of sin. Christ, through His great love for us, came this Christmas day, to one day heal us completely from this dreaded disease.
Though we suffer now, He is there to comfort us. Not always with answers, but the very giving of Himself.
All of Himself.
Nothing held back.
I want to thank all of you for your continued prayers and support. We are blessed to have all of you as part of our family.
Sallee continues chemo. Next treatment, next part of January.
Merry Christmas,
Montie
God is bigger than cancer but my heart breaks for them.
This is a picture of our friends Montie and Sallee Couch, they are fellow adoptive parents and dear friends of ours (more like family). I asked permission to share Montie's words here on my page...their family is still struggling with awful ovarian cancer. Sallee has gotten far worse here at the holidays. If you feel the desire to help them out I have attached a link to a PayPal donation button on Sallee's blog. Things were really tough for them this Christmas...Sallee was barely able to sit with the family in the morning and her pain meds are so strong she is disoriented. Because things have gotten so hard, Montie will NEED to stay at home with her these next days or weeks. He is self employed and ONLY gets paid when he works, so any financial donation will be a very tangible help for them.
www.itspoppydipblog.blogspot.com
www.takethemameal.com (if you would like to provide a meal) family:couch password:sallee
Here are Montie's very eloquent words! He is an inspiration to me and I promise you will be touched:
This Christmas, 2012, I reflect back upon the year, a year that has been marked with suffering.
Not that there has not been good times, I am a very blessed man.
I have six great kids and they bring great joy in my life.
I know they have kept me going, at times when I thought I could do no more.
But most of all, I have the greatest wife in the world. She is my best friend and knows me only second to my God.
At times I search for good out of all that we have been through.
First I see that it has brought us closer as a family. We have been forced to pull together and hold one another up. Though we all deal with Sallee's sickness differently, it all comes down to a single thing. You are forced to ask the question; why. Why did this happy? Why did God allow this?
I know God loves me and my family.
And its okay to ask God why.
I believe suffering is a mystery, at least to me, not to God. He has allowed it and He has a purpose. There will be answers one day, I am sure of that.
But for now we trust.
One great blessing that has come from all of this, is the opportunity to love my wife in a way that not many have the chance to.
Through caring and comforting her as we walk through this together.
If marriage is a picture God has given us of Christ, and His relationship with His people, then I can see a glimpse into the answer.
We as His people, are suffering through the plague of sin. Christ, through His great love for us, came this Christmas day, to one day heal us completely from this dreaded disease.
Though we suffer now, He is there to comfort us. Not always with answers, but the very giving of Himself.
All of Himself.
Nothing held back.
I want to thank all of you for your continued prayers and support. We are blessed to have all of you as part of our family.
Sallee continues chemo. Next treatment, next part of January.
Merry Christmas,
Montie
God is bigger than cancer but my heart breaks for them.
1 comment:
Tears welled up in my eyes...will most definitely be praying for your dear friend Sallee. Much love to you, friend.
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