To Alice

A person I don't even know died the other day...and I'm grieving. One of my friends forwarded me some emails from and old school friend of her's who was fighting cancer. Her name was Alice. Alice had a deep, committed relationship with God that was evident by the journal enteries that she wrote and her parent's passed along to all of us.

It really moved something deep inside of me to see someone so sick still have such an incredible faith and trust in God. Alice has been a light and an inspiration to me to quit complaining when things get a little hard, when I'm not completely comfortable in life. I'd even dare say that she is a hero to me. Her body was riddled with cancer, she suffered immense pain, drugged up all the time yet still having to suffer the side effects on top of the pain that the drugs only masked. She relied on God every day to see her through without waivering in her belief that God was with her all the way, that He cared and felt her pain, that He would heal her and that her life would touch many.

Well God did heal her by taking her home. I have faith that her life has touched many because it touched mine and I don't even know her.