Our neighbors lost their daughter several years ago to brain cancer. Since then, they’ve been on a mission to raise money to find a cure. They started the Kyrie Foundation. And they’ve been holding a series of events – an awareness walk, a golf tournament, scrap-booking events and art shows – in an effort to collect funds.
Their annual Twilight Walk was tonight at Bishop Carroll. It’s grown bigger every year they’ve had it. It’s amazing to me how much they do, and in such difficult circumstances. To lose a child would be about the worst thing I could imagine happening. But they’ve apparently taken that pain and applied it for something good, for something bigger than themselves. They continue to act – not just be paralyzed by grief.
At the end of the event, our family went over to talk and pray with our neighbors. We want God to bless them in their work.
“Those who sow in tears
will reap with songs of joy.
He who goes out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with him.”
Psalm 126:5-6
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