On Wednesday April 6, 2016 Brian and I attended the information meeting at REI South Side works to learn what the CureSearch Ultimate hike was all about... but let's back up..
Brian and I had been talking for a while that we wanted to get involved in something, either volunteer work, a mission trip, something. But we didn't know what that something was, just that God was calling us to take a on something. . While cleaning out my junk emails one day, I happened to click on an email from REI,which I never do, and came across an events calendar. On this calendar was an information meeting for the Cure Search Ultimate Hike. I thought, hmmm that sounds interesting and kind of fun, having NO idea what it was. It just sounded like a hike Brian and I could do together.
As I read on, I learned that this Ultimate Hike was much more than a walk in the woods, but it was a means for us to raise money for childhood cancer research. Well we didn't know anyone that has been effected by this and thankfully we had not been touched either. So this sounded "nice" and maybe?? what we were looking for,, was this our "something"? I signed us up thinking, it's just a meeting, why not.
A few days later while browsing around facebook, I came across a post on one of Brian's fraternity brothers pages. The post spoke about a woman that was a "sister" to their fraternity in college and the devastating news she had just received. Her child was sick and they were rushing to have tests run. But what struck me more was reading further on her page. This was her SECOND child, her youngest that was going through this news,, her FIRST child had already battled cancer and lost. Two children in one family?
Brian and I firmly believe that everything happens for a reason. We are all part of a greater plan and our story has already been written. It is up to us to listen to the whispers from God to follow his design for our lives as he places things in front of us, Everything for a reason. It is not for us to ask why he places things in our lives, it is our job to have faith and trust in Him. The Will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.
We had found our "something".
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