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A Time For Everything

So last week, Tuesday at 9:15 pm, a wonderful, amazing woman, Misty passed away after her long battle with Stage IV Brain Cancer. Since then I have been asking the same questions over and over and over again. Why in the world would God take away such a Beautiful soul, mother, wife, someone who could do so much good here on this earth? Now, I never really got the chance to meet her, infact I only meet her in person once, but I remember that day so clearly, I am not the greatest at remembering things, and I don't know her husband all that well either, but he is good friends with my husband. It has been through Darren, and his blog that I came to truly know what a beautiful woman Misty was, and her life and passing has come to touch so many lives. These questions I have for God have only brought me to a deeper understanding as to where my fait lies. I don't understand and nor do I ever believe I will come to an understanding as to why God would do that. He knows and I just have to learn to take comfort in knowing that it was His plan to take Misty home to be with Him Even though so many people, maybe even you, had been praying for her healing and we truly believed that He would heal her. It's just weird to have this kind of hurt. It has stured up some questions about myself, my faith, and my love. It only makes me wonder more about who God is, it makes me want to understand Him more. It also makes me wonder, how would I be if I were in Darrens shoes? Would I have that kind of faith and love for God still, or would I be angry? All I know now is that I desire to know more about God, I desire to learn about this unbelivable faith that Misty had.  Her story is an amazing story, I just wish that she were here to share it with us, but now we can depend on her loving husband and beautiful daughter to continue on with her legacy. I am really looking foward to the future posts that will be coming up on the blog. It really amazes me that Darren has the time and the passion to share his life, and to continue to share his life, with all of us! I hope that you all have the time to visit the website to just begin to understand the faith that she and Darren had/has. I just don't know where to begin, or even what to write. Most of the time when something like this in life happens I can articulate it or just "grin and bare" with it, but for some reason I'm not just sure how to put into words all the things I think about, have questions about, or even the feelings that I have. (although I don't think it helps that my dog is snoring on my lap....). I've also been having a difficult time sleeping because all these mixed thoughts keep running through my head. I've just been constantly thinking and wondering and asking, and I'm just left here, with no answers....  I can only trust.

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~Kathi  

Life since April and then some.

 Well once again it has been a few months since I have updated you all. Its getting more difficult to handle all these new networking sites! Anyway...

Tim and I had our 2 year anniversary last month! I can't believe that we have been married for two years already!! The house is great, I just wish it were in NJ. We are pretty much all settled and are now trying to get ourselves acquainted with the area and trying to find a new home church. which has not been easy. Plus it doesn't help that we are not actually here very many weekends!

Life in MD has been as good as it can be, I just really miss home (NJ), the beach, my friends, my family, my church, and everything I know. But it has also been good for both Tim and I, for our relationship. We are really learning to lean on eachother, we no longer have the close help of our families that we had living in NJ, which I think we had come to use a lot. But now, there is only the two of us! Which has been great!! We leave to go on a Missions trip with some people from our home church in 23 days!! We'll be leaving the states and heading out to Africa! I am really excited and nervous all at the same time! I can't believe that we are actually going to do this. I really don't know what else I can say about this at this time.

Not too much else has been going on latley. I do have a prayer request that I would like to bring to you all as well.I have a friend, Misty, who is battleing stage IV brain cancer. The doctors have stopped all treatment and now her husband friends and family are all relying on God's work now for her healing and so far, God has done wonders in her life and healing! Please continue to pray for her, her husband Darren, and their little daughter! You can aslo view updates at www.leblanclife.com! thank you all so much!!!

Love yas!

Kathi

We Have a House!!!!!

 Hey everyone it's time for another house update!! Some exciting news! WW HAVE A HOUSE!!!! The framing is all up, the outside walls are up, and the windows and doors are in!!! We was so exciting to pull into the neighborhood and see a house standing in the spotwhere there's been nothing for the past 4 months!! When we saw the foundation we were so exciting, but that excitment does not compare the what we felt when we saw our house for the first time! To see our idea that we have had for months to be a real physical home was just the most incredible experience. It was so exciting! There were three mistakes they made, one great!, one terrible, and one that was able to be fixed! The first was that we got 2 extra feet in the garage! that was exciting to hear, but then when I found out that they put a welled exit in for the basement, I was soooo disapointed because I HATE those things, I just think they are so big and just take up so much space in your backyard, and I don't think they can fix it which is even more disapointing..... but I do try to look at everything else, like the fact that we have a home!! and the last one was they were going to put whats called a cap railing in for the stairs which is basically half a wall and not a normal railing, but we were able to fix that since its all just still the framing inside. Anyway... So I just wanted to let you al; know whats been going on! It's all happening so fast now!  

~~Kathi