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Sunday, March 04, 2007

My Wife

ANDREW WRITES:
She’s so beautiful.

In 2002 I ended up moving across the street from Grace's apartment in Los Angeles and that's when we became good friends. We always had so much to talk about and we shared so much in common. We became good friends, fell in love and got engaged there on Kelton Avenue in Los Angeles. We then got married in New Jersey on January 10th, 2004 and moved to Seattle.

Grace has been my best friend ever since. When she hears the garage door open when I arrive home from work Grace and the kids all hurry to the top of the stairs and wait there. When I come around the corner I see her smiling radiantly with Gracie on her hip saying, "Welcome home!", while AJ stands at her feet saying, "Pops, home. Pops, home!" I love my job, but I really really love coming home.

Grace is not only my best friend, she's also my biggest fan and she supports me no matter what. She sacrificially gives of herself to her family every day. The way in which she has supported me through this trial has given me great hope, and it has taught me how I ought to support others. If not for her I would probably still be slumped over in my bed depressed and wasting away.

When I was first diagnosed with cancer I was so fearful of the future. Grace came to me and said, "No matter how bad it is, we're going to fight this. Even if its all over your body we're going to fight this cancer together." These past six weeks I've watched Grace boldy step up to all of our challenges. She's more amazing than I could have imagined.

Grace continually teaches me how to sacrifice for, encourage and strengthen others. She loves the Lord so much, and helps me to love Him more each day. If anything good ever comes out of me these days it is because of the encouragement and support of my wife. She is so strong, so bold, and so bright, yet so gentle and so caring. There isn’t another woman on this earth like her. She is so precious, and yet I don’t show enough gratitude to her for all that she has done for me and our kids. I love her so much, but I don’t deserve her. I don’t deserve half the woman that she is. Thank you, Lord, for giving me such a precious, undeserved gift.

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Kate AlessoThursday, March 08, 2007 11:00:00 AM
I love to see you guys loving each other so much. You both inspire me. You guys are so brave through it all, and I'm so thankful that God is giving you courage and joy through it all. May you keep growing closer to Him and to each other.
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2 Corinthians 5

Our Heavenly Dwelling

¹Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. ²Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, ³because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. ⁴For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. ⁵Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

⁶Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. ⁷We live by faith, not by sight. ⁸We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. ⁹So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. ¹⁰For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

The Ministry of Reconciliation

¹¹Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience. ¹²We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart. ¹³If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. ¹⁴For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. ¹⁵And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

¹⁶So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. ¹⁷Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! ¹⁸All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. ²¹God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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Sunday, March 04, 2007

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