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• THE JOURNEY IS OVER (JOURNAL 90)

  3 June, 2016

  If you were to read our journal entry for this day last year, you would read the following Today's instalment… [more]

• JOURNAL 89

  22 May, 2016

  Hi sweetheart, Sometimes I experience periods of “What if…?”. These are times when my mind seems… [more]

• JOURNAL 88

  17 May, 2016

  Hi Darling, Coming home from the hospital with a mechanical device fitted to my chest – a P.E.G. I think it… [more]

• JOURNAL 87

  13 May, 2016

  JOURNAL 87 The doctor said I can go home this morning. The surgery has had the desired effect and this new means of… [more]

• JOURNAL 86

  10 May, 2016

  JOURNAL 86 MOTHER’S DAY Hello sweetheart, I haven’t spoken to our children as to… [more]

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• Our Journey Through The Valley [2]

  15 April, 2013

  How one couple are facing life and death in the presence of Motor Neurone Disease.

  Hello, This is Bev: Mike has asked me if I would be willing to share my perspective with what is happening to me....to him...to us. I know that many of our readers will stay in touch via these journal extracts and I am more than happy to do so.

  This has been for me a "day of great sadness". I am not afraid of dying but I am becoming painfully aware of the great grief that comes with great loss. This morning I wept as we held on to each other. Through a broken voice Mike assured me that he would be with me every step of this journey. My tears were not for myself but for Mike and our children.

  This is Mike: On numerous occasions Bev has apologised profusely for what she is going to put us through. Of course, this disease is not of her choosing. She has nothing for which she ought to apologise. This is another expression of her selfless heart. She is always thinking of others.

  Today's Bible reading is so relevant to our situation.

  I think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and completely overwhelmed, and we thought we would never live through it. In fact, we expected to die. But as a result, we learned not to rely on ourselves, but on God who can raise the dead. (2 Corinthians 1:8-10 NLT)