Introduction

In the Summer of 2008, our life began to slowly change.  We had no clue what was coming, and we certainly never knew everything would be changed forever.

Together, we have endured more than we could have ever imagined in our first year and half of marriage.  However, God continuously gives us hope and strength, even when we don’t have the strength to ask for it.  We both wanted to write down all that has happened so far so that we would always remember and never take God and the life he has given us for granted.  We also felt God has been putting it on our hearts to tell others about what He has done so far.

We will be updating this blog frequently to tell our story.  Posts will often be broken up into “his view” and “her view” in order to share what we were experiencing individually.  The blog will be written chronologically as we recall events that took place.  Because some situations were exponentially more painful than others, it may take us longer to relive and transcribe these events.  We will post notices as past listings are updated so that you can keep up with what all has happened.  Please keep in mind that the past has been extremely painful for us and we have become accustomed to updating people on how we are doing casually instead of in-depth.  We are going to try to fight the urge to skip over the most painful events and give you a look at the raw bones of what all we went through and the emotions that we felt.  This may not always be possible because of the many emotions and experiences we had, so of course we will  not be able to always let you know everything that has happened (especially in an uncensored way), but we will strive to.

Please know that this blog is not intended to be a sob story.  It is intended to record what all has happened so that the two of us will not forget, and also to share with others so that they too can have hope in times of weakness and despair.

-Philip and Maegan

~ by hopefortheweary on January 1, 2010.