Cathy's Heart

How My Heroes Overcome Adversity Last week, I went to visit family in Arizona. My dad was scheduled for surgery, and I wanted to keep him and my mom company during their hospital stay and home recovery.   As we walked through the hospital doors, I felt completely comfortable. The corridors, procedures, and people were all very familiar to me, even though I am a non-medical type person.   I escorted my parents through the admissions process, then to pre-op. After we prayed for my dad, and kissed him goodbye, my mom and I waited in the post-op lounge. The hours passed slowly, while memories of other hospital visits filled my mind.   I remembered a phone call 5 years earlier. Our world was rocked with the devastating news that  our 17 year old niece , Kelsey, had a brain tumor. (Click the link to read more). Surgery was scheduled for the next day. We rejoiced when we learned the tumor was benign. Still, after her recovery, our precious brown-eyed, brown-haired...

God's Opportunity to Grow Up Twenty-five years ago my husband and I began the greatest adventure of our lives.    With a moving van chock-full of every possession we owned, and our four small children snuggly buckled into our Chevy Suburban, we caravanned across the Arizona desert to our new home in beautiful Southern California.   Certainly, God was in this! He had moved upon our hearts and opened every door to pave the way for this new chapter to begin.    April, May, June, July and August of 1990, we settled into our new home. Easily, our family fell-in-love with the rolling green hills, the majestic ocean blue, and the beach style life.    By summer's end, however, the grand adventure became a great challenge. That's when my husband began law school. Each morning he would leave for work by 7. Not to return home until later, after classes, around 10 every night.   For me, life in a new place, with four little ones under the age of 6, suddenly b...