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I got some new glasses a little while ago and for the first time since I started wearing glasses I splurged!  I figured that since they need to be on my face every day, all day, that I should get ones that I really like.  More importantly, this time I actually got the scratch resistant coating and the anti glare.  Those were things I never spent the extra on but that were thrown in for free when I got my glasses at the optometrist.  The other great advantage of getting glasses there was the guarantee.  You just feel safer when you know, should something happen, someone has your back.  New glasses have also gotten me thinking about parallels with life.  I think everyone would feel much safer and calmer if they had a guarantee for life too.  That might be what most people assume a marriage will be.  A guarantee that someone will be there to help them should the times get tough.  After all, it's right in the vows.  For better OR WORS...

There is something that I should have talked about here long ago but I have been avoiding it.  I wasn't sure how I should tackle this subject and I also wasn't sure if I should but enough is enough.  I have decided that the need is greater than my opposition so here goes.  I have a cousin who is very sick.  His name is Mark Lewis and he was diagnosed last year with Angiosarcoma, a rare type of cancer.  He could really, really use your prayer.  He is married with two young boys.  He has had surgery to remove his spleen where the cancer was detected and though they believed they got it all he discovered in July that it had returned and spread.  Chemotherapy and radiation are no longer effective and it seems the only treatment option available to him is in a hospital in Mexico where he will receive immunotherapy.  So why have I been reluctant to talk about this previously?  The answer is somewhat complicated.  My family has been so...

I have to say, I have been very lucky.  My 2 kids have both been very healthy and aside from minor scrapes, bumps, bruises, the occasional cold, flu and an eye infection or two there hasn't been any real concerns.  I haven't had to take either of them to the emergency room... until today.  Now don't worry, it's nothing serious.  In fact if it would have been a little later in the day or if it wasn't the weekend I would have just taken her to a clinic.  This morning at about 7am my 6 year old daughter barreled into our room frantically crying.  "There's something in my ear, there's something in my ear."  She yelled while jumping up on the bed for me to have a look.  I asked what it was and she said she didn't know.  My first thought was that a bug had crawled in there and that freaked me out a bit too.  I dragged her into the bathroom and took a look in some slightly better light.  When I pressed her for details she said it was har...