The passing of a friend

I awoke this morning to discover that, not unexpectedly, my friend Marla had passed from this world into the next. She was diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic breast cancer in 2004. The cancer has been in her liver and had recently spread very aggressively. Marla and I went to high school together, ran track together, and did small town life together. While we were friends in high school, her sickness brought us back together these past several months, along with several other old friends. (Tragic, isn't it, that it is often disease and death that reunites old friends and family?)

Marla was beautiful, in health and in sickness. She loved Jesus with great passion. She adored her family and was an anchor for her friends. She leaves behind her husband Patrick, three children--Katie, Brodie and Lilly, as well as her mother, brother and sisters and innumerable friends. Please pray for her family, especially Patrick and the children, as they move into this season of grief.

Thanks.