Life Isn’t Always

 Isn’t that a beautiful photo???

This is a story about a truly horrific illness, but I heard it said, long ago, that there is beauty at the scene of all tragedies.

You just have to look for it.

I didn’t have to look too hard in the telling of this story.

To be honest about it, I had received a lot of written information via Dave, but then I asked his wife Carolyn and his two daughters to just tell me how they felt.

I was a few sentences into reading Carolyn’s handwritten words when it hit me:

“There’s the beauty.”

And it wasn’t because Carolyn had written anything especially profound, she was simply going to be  rock. She explained it in the first line:

“I thought, ‘Okay, it is what it is. We will face it. Let’s fix it.’”

And that was the strength…

…and the beauty…

…and life isn’t always beautiful.

But the wonder of their strength is right there in that photo.

When I saw the photo I knew it was going to be the cover because it tells the story.

Not the horrific story of an unforgiving cancer, but the beautiful story on handling it.

A story worth telling and one you should take the time to read.