Tim and Kim

For a couple of weeks now we have been living with an additional health concern for our daughter-in-law Kim. She has had multiple doctors' appointments and tests that just last week confirmed that she has breast cancer!! The diagnosis came the day after I returned from spending a week with them in Regina. It hit us all with a mixture of shock and numbness, on a larger scale than Bob's diagnosis. It's one thing for a 68 year old to have cancer, and quite another for a 33 year old mother of four little children and wonderful wife to our son.

Kim had an MRI on Tuesday to determine whether the cancer had affected any lymph nodes, and we're so relieved to find out today that it likely hasn't. She'll be having a mastectomy (which is major enough!) towards the end of next week, and further treatment, if need be.

Tim and Kim are facing this with such courage and faith, and the assurance that God is in control, and that the only thing they have control of is how they respond to what God has allowed. They are learning to live one day at a time and even finding things to be thankful for!!

Thankfully, Barbie lives just minutes away from them and will be helping take care of the children as much as she can, and Kim's mother lives in the area as well.

Please join us in praying for them and we will continue to post updates. Bob and I can attest to the powerful impact that the prayers of friends and family have had as we've walked this journey through the "valley of the shadow". We have truly experienced a peace, joy, strength, and healing that only comes from the Lord, and we are confident that Tim and Kim will receive these same gifts from His loving hand as well.

This picture was taken when they visited us here in BC this summer. The children are Colby (8), Gracyn (6), Carson (4), and Mykenna (2).