KIDNEY JOURNEY: From uncertainty to glimpses of hope (March 8, 2021)

I had no idea that my kidneys were shutting down. When I first learned about it, I did not know how to feel. For a moment, I was on the verge of being scared, apprehensive of an unknown future. Dialysis? What is that? But I controlled my feelings and decided to let my mind take over. Otherwise, if I let my feelings take over, we don't know where that's gonna go.

A BATTLE SCAR: HE LOVED ME UNTIL THE END by Chato Olivas

January 1, 2023
Sunday

This New Year's Day, I remember my husband Pastor Joenard Gallo who loved me until the end. So now, I am sharing with you the poem I wrote during the season of grief and recovery that my sons and I went through. I wrote the poem in 2013, two years after Joenard went home to our Abba Father.

We can always look back and see how God carried us and made us strong through the years.