GREAT BIG OLE GRIZZLY BEAR HUGGGGZZZZZZZZZ SQUISHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LOVE YALL AM JUST A HANGIN IN HERE MS IS THE SAME NO WORSE NO BETTER SO NO COMPLAINTS CUZ IT COULD BE WORSE,BILLY'S KNEES WERE SORE FROM PT N BACK THERE WE GO THIS AFT , A LONG ROAD AHEAD SURE HOPE IT WORKS,TY  ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT YALL ARE  AWESOME, HOPE YOU  HAVE  A AWESOME DAY WITH BETTER TOMMOROWS, LOVE YALL GREAT BIG OLE GRIZZLKY BEAR HUGGGGZZZZZ SQUISHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHBALANCE SHEET OF  LIFE Our Birth is our Opening Balance! Our Death is our Closing Balance! Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities Our Creative Ideas are our Assets Heart is our Current Asset Soul is our Fixed Asset Brain is our Fixed Deposit Thinking is our Current Account Achievements are our Capital Character & Morals, our Stock-in-Trade Friends are our General Reserves Values & Behaviour are our Goodwill Patience is our Interest Earned Love is our Dividend Children are our Bonus Issues Education is Brands / Patents Knowledge is our Investment Experience is our Premium Account The Aim is to Tally the Balance Sheet Accurately. The Goal is to get the Best Presented Accounts Award. Some very Good and Very bad things ...The most destructive habit......................Worry The greatest Joy...............................Giving The greatest loss.......Loss of self-respect The most satisfying work...............Helping others The ugliest personality trait.............Selfishness The most endangered species.........Dedicated leaders Our greatest natural resource...............Our youth The greatest 'shot in the arm'..........Encouragement The greatest problem to overcome.................Fear The most effective sleeping pill........Peace of mind The most crippling failure disease............Excuses The most powerful force in life...................Love The most dangerous pariah........A gossipThe world's most incredible computer........The brain The worst thing to be without................... Hope The deadliest weapon.......................The tongue The two most power-filled words................'I Can' The greatest asset...............................Faith The most worthless emotion..................Self-pity The most beautiful attire......................SMILE! The most prized possession................Integrity The most powerful channel of communication.....Prayer The most contagious spirit..................Enthusiasm The most important thing in life..................GOD Life ends; when you stop Dreaming, Hope ends; when you stop Believing, Love ends; when you stop Caring, And Friendship ends; when you stop Sharing...!!!This is beautiful!   She jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room.She said: 'How is my little boy? Is he going to be all right? When can I seehim?' The surgeon said, 'I'm sorry. We did all we could, but your boydidn't make it.'   Sally said, 'Why do little children get cancer? Doesn't God care anymore? Where were you, God, when my son needed you?'   The surgeon asked, 'Would you like some time alone with your son? One ofthe nurses will be out in a few minutes, before he's transported to theuniversity.'   Sally asked the nurse to stay with her while she said good bye to son. She ranher fingers lovingly through his thick red curly hair. 'Would you like alock of his hair?' the nurse asked. Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a lockof the boy's hair, put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.   The mother said, 'It was Jimmy's idea to donate his body to theUniversity for Study. He said it might help somebody else. 'I said no atfirst, but Jimmy said, 'Mom, I won't be using it after I die. Maybe itwill help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom.' She wenton, 'My Jimmy had a heart of gold. Always thinking of someone else. Alwayswanting to help others if he could.'   Sally walked out of Children's Mercy Hospital for the last time, afterspending most of the last six months there. She put the bag with Jimmy'sbelongings on the seat beside her in the car.   The drive home was difficult. It was even harder to enter the empty house. Shecarried Jimmy's belongings, and the plastic bag with the lock of his hair toher son's room.   She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his roomexactly where he had always kept them. She lay down across his bed and, hugginghis pillow, cried herself to sleep.   It was around midnight when Sally awoke. Lying beside her on the bed was afolded letter. The letter said :   'Dear Mom,   I know you're going to miss me; but don't think that I will ever forgetyou, or stop loving you, just 'cause I'm not around to say 'I LoveYou'. I will always love you, Mom, even more with each day. Someday we willsee each other again. Until then, if you want to adopt a little boy so youwon't be so lonely, that's okay with me. He can have my room and oldstuff to play with. But, if you decide to get a girl instead, she probablywouldn't like the same things us boys do. You'll have to buy her dollsand stuff girls like, you know. Don't be sad thinking about me. This really is a neat place. Grandma andGrandpa met me as soon as I got here and showed me around some, but it will takea long time to see everything. The angels are so cool. I love to watch them fly.And, you know what? Jesus doesn't look like any of his pictures. Yet, when Isaw Him, I knew it was Him. Jesus himself took me to see GOD! And guess what,Mom? I got to sit on God's knee and talk to Him, like I was somebodyimportant. That's when I told Him that I wanted to write you a letter, totell you good bye and everything. But I already knew that wasn't allowed.Well, you know what Mom? God handed me some paper and His own personal pen towrite you this letter I think Gabriel is the name of the angel who is going todrop this letter off to you. God said for me to give you the a nswer to one ofthe questions you asked Him 'where was He when I needed him?' 'Godsaid He was in the same place with me, as when His sonJesus was on the cross. He was right there, as He always is with all Hischildren.   Oh, by the way, Mom, no one else can see what I've written except you. Toeveryone else this is just a blank piece of paper. Isn't that cool? I haveto give God His pen back now He needs it to write some more names in the Book ofLife. Tonight I get to sit at the table with Jesus for supper. I'm sure thefood will be great.   Oh, I almost forgot to tell you. I don't hurt anymore the cancer is allgone.. I'm glad because I couldn't stand that pain anymore and Godcouldn't stand to see me hurt so much, either. That's when He sent TheAngel of Mercy to come get me. The Angel said I was a Special Delivery! Howabout that?   Signed with Love from God, Jesus & Me

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Beautiful words of course.....Praying the PT will help Billy big time. Hang in there Dad....Love U
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That was pretty deep. Made me stop and think. Thanks for sharing and caring.
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ty for sharing and caring, praying for billy god will protect him and itll all be ok. love ya ((Hugs)))
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Hey hon...i have been reading back through your journals...smile..i have been awol lately..grin..so sorry to hear about Billy...it is always so hard to see our own children in pain and hurting and not be able to fix it...makes us feel so helpless as parents..sigh...just rest assured hon..smile..your an awsome dad....from the way your always writing about your kids...they could not ask for a better..more supportive loving parent....we may not always be able to fix everything..but we can always be there for them...smile...how is Bree doing by the way??....glad to hear the the ms is staying stable during all of this hon...

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Let Billy know he\'s being prayed for.

I only used up half a box of kleenex on that one, sniffle sniffle. It\'s hard to look at the blessings and miracles when we\'re hurting and sad. Thanks for the reminder.
Hugs & Blessings, Karen
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I can\'t say anything any better than what has already been said. You are a wonderful, caring person hun. I\'m honoured that you\'re my friend. Take care of you! xoxo
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love that story.