| FAYE'S SONG PG 2 |
HER STRONG FAITH WAS REWARDED WHEN GOD SENT LARRY TO TAKE HER HAND THEY WERE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER SHE KNEW IT HAD TO BE GOD'S PLAN FAYE'S LIFE CENTERED ON HER FAMILY AS THE BABIES CAME ONE BY ONE THEIR HOME WASN'T LARGE OR FANCY BUT FILLED WITH LAUGHTER, FAITH AND FUN! FAYE AND LARRY MADE CHRIST THE CORNERSTONE OF THEIR MARRIAGE AND THEIR LIVES TRUSTING THAT WHEN THE TROUBLES CAME THEY WOULD TRIUMPH AND SURVIVE SHE MADE SURE EACH OF THE CHILDREN LEARNED OF JESUS AND WHAT HE'D DONE HOW HE'D LIVED AND HOW HE'D SUFFERED BECAUSE HE LOVED THEM EVERY ONE! THEN THE CHILDREN GREW UP AND LEFT AND THERE CAME THAT AWFUL DAY FAYE AND LARRY, SAT HOLDING HANDS TO HEAR WHAT THE DOCTOR HAD TO SAY "I'M VERY SORRY" HE SHOOK HIS HEAD "BUT THE TESTS ARE VERY CLEAR IT'S EARLY ONSET ALZHEIMERS...” FAYE'S BLUE EYES FILLED WITH TEARS. SHE SOBBED, "BUT I'M ONLY 57 COULDN'T THE TESTS BE WRONG?" THE DOCTOR GENTLY SHOOK HIS HEAD LARRY WHISPERED THEN, "HOW LONG?" THE DOCTOR REPLIED THAT THIS DISEASE WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO FORETELL THERE'D BE DAYS HER MIND WOULD SLIP AND OTHERS WHEN SHE'D BE WELL. SHE FELT THE PANIC STARTING IN AS TERROR SEIZED HER HEART SHE WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE HER FAMILY? HOW SOON WOULD SYMPTOMS START? WOULD SHE LOSE ALL HER PRECIOUS MEMORIES OR FORGET HER CHILDREN'S NAMES? IN HER HEART THERE WAS NO DOUBT HER LIFE WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME! AND VERY SLOWLY, DAY BY DAY AS AWARENESS CAME AND WENT THE LOVING SUPPORT HER CHILDREN SHOWED TO FAYE SEEMED HEAVEN-SENT FOR EVERY ONE OF THEM RALLIED 'ROUND HANDLING WHAT SHE NO LONGER COULD AND THROUGH IT ALL HER TRUST IN GOD REMAINED LIKE SHE KNEW IT WOULD ONE DAY, HER OLDEST DAUGHTER SAID "MOM...THIS IS SO UNFAIR... YOU'VE HONORED GOD YOUR ENTIRE LIFE AND NOW HE DOESN’T SEEM TO CARE! BUT FAYE SMILED AT HER DAUGHTER SAYING, "THE LORD ALWAYS HAS A PLAN IT'S NOT FOR US TO DOUBT OR QUESTION WHEN WE CAN'T SEE OR UNDERSTAND |
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