The Great Story....

The things that began to happen...were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story, which no one on earth has read: which goes on forever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.       -C.S. Lewis: The Last Battle

A difficult season once again....

The fall of 2013 started out like any other...then, unexpectedly, my Mom took ill...and was diagnosed with cancer on November 9th, 2013.

Oh how I hate that word.

In 1992, cancer took the life of my Dad at the age of 59. My Mom and the rest of us were devastated.

We would have 2 months with Mom. We hoped and prayed we would have 2 years...but it was not to be.

On January 9th, 2014, in the early morning, my Mom, Margaret Gerk, went home.

Oh how I miss them.

In an age where everyone complains about their parents, and this and that...I want to tell anyone who will listen that I had good parents.

Strict, yes.  But they loved us.  The took care of us. They were the best parents anyone could ask for.

How I miss them.

Until we meet again!