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van gheem family van gheem family total pageviews friday february 24 2017 kennedy hello if you followed our story then you might remember this little cutie yea to edan joy gelt gene khalimsky maddox khalimsky kennedy khalimsky and a huge shout out to kennedy khalimsky she and ella went through treatment at loyola together and now kennedy has reached her 5 year cancer free mark read her story below and join us in saying congratulations to kennedy ella and kennedy at loyola kennedy s journey blessings katie posted by unknown at 2 24 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday december 12 2016 guest blogger for west ridge community church i had the opportunity to be the guest blogger at west ridge last week sharing the article below thanks http westridgechurch com blog a giving heart a giving heart posted on december 6 2016 by west ridge in my late 20 s i was in industrial sales i was out driving through chicago with another salesperson michael and on the side of the road there was a man asking for money michael immediately rolled down his window in a not so great part of chicago and handed the guy 5 and said god bless you now the cynical part of me immediately had questions why would you roll your window down in this neighborhood and how do you know he won t use that money for drugs or alcohol what michael said to me changed the way i have thought about giving from that moment on he said it is not my place to question why they need the money it is only my job to give it when i am called to i believe that the devil wants us to question doubt and think a way out of giving to others but if we are listening and god tells me to give i do my best to block everything else out and just give it is not up to me how they use the money but it is up to me to listen to god when he is talking to me and guess what he talks all year not just at christmas 2 corinthians states in 9 7 that each one must give as he has decided in his heart not reluctantly or under compulsion for god loves a cheerful giver so decide in your heart that you will not question but that when you are called or nudged that you will just cheerfully give and let god do the rest you will find greater joy in giving freely then questioning what you have been called to do blessings katie van gheem posted by unknown at 5 57 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday november 16 2016 why does bad stuff happen to good people http westridgechurch com blog why does bad stuff happen to good people hello i was guest blogger this week at west ridge community church i am sharing the link above and the post here also thought i would share this cute picture of josh and ella blessings katie why does bad stuff happen to good people posted on november 15 2016 by west ridge i cannot tell you how many times i have been asked this question and have even asked it myself my daughter my perfect four year old daughter who s only sin was probably taking one of her brothers toys was diagnosed with cancer when she was four years old four years old at that point can we even determine if she was a good person yet she was just a child my child i found myself being asked by both my christian and non christian friends more than once if there is a god how could he let this bad thing happen how can you believe that god exists if he can allow your child to go through such pain it was hard to answer because i felt like what they were asking me ran deeper than why did your kid get cancer they were asking if i still believed in a god that would let this terrible thing happen to my child my first answers were definitely more in the i don t know category because really i didn t know how to answer that question i have read plenty of scripture and books on why bad things happen during my christian life but now this was a bad thing happening right in my family as time passed i knew that the family it was happening too wasn t just my immediate family but my entire church family too i do not believe god let my child get cancer but what i do believe is that he surrounded us with a huge church family that prayed for us brought us meals and surrounded us with love i believe that god put the right people and doctors in our path to keep our child healthy safe and alive i believe that god prepared us for this difficult time before it ever happened i believe that god surrounded us with love and carried us when we could not move anymore i believe god showed us the joy in the situation instead of allowing our judgment to be clouded with doubt fear and despair i believe that god gave us the strength to keep moving forward in his love and not be held back by this bad thing will i ever really understand why ella had cancer no is it the last bad thing that will happen in our lives no was it the first no was god there for us yes did he surround us with love yes did he carry us through when we were not able to do it on our own definitely god didn t let my child get cancer he kept her alive in spite of cancer in spite of the evil one calling our names his love turned this bad thing into proof that he loves us and will carry us forward during the good stuff and the bad stuff katie van gheem posted by unknown at 8 34 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels why does bad stuff happen to good people thursday october 13 2016 guest blogger hi i had the opportunity to be a guest blogger again if you interested in reading you can follow here west ridge community church blessings katie posted by unknown at 9 03 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday september 6 2016 death and life my step dad died today he was 60 years old and died from smoking and drinking he was an alcoholic he drank heavily my entire life but he was a happy drunk so no one really thought of him as having a drinking problem he also started smoking when he was 16 and even when he had a tracheotomy he kept smoking he has systematically pushed away every family member for the past 20 years his only friends were people he knew from the bar he hung out at he lived pay check to paycheck in a small dingy apartment he had no pets he even asked for his kids not to be called when he was at the end the one friend that was left asked someone to reach out to me i went to the icu last night to find him completely sedated and on a ventilator he was extremely agitated according to the nurses so they had to bid his wrists and sedate him in an attempt to let his body rest and heal when i looked at him there was no love left only pity i felt sorry for him can you imagine what it would be like to be at the end of your life and have no one this was completely his choice he chose smoking and drinking over everyone else in his life he chose not to be in contact with his kids his marriages failed his life was from my view so empty don t let this happen i want to scream this at everyone do not end up like this man show the people around you that you care for them and love them use your actions to show people they are important do not choose the things of this world over the gifts god has generously given to you don t be a fool like this man was and toss aside people who want to care about you don t end up on your death bed alone katie posted by unknown at 3 01 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alcoholism death gods gifts thursday august 25 2016 6 years ago today i don t know why this year it has bothered me more than others but it has six years ago today i was at costco when my phone rang and i didn t pick it up i saw that it was ella s doctor we were not expecting results for 3 days i knew it wasn t good and i didn t want to get this call while i was standing in the middle of a big box store i got out of the store and minutes later steve was telling me what i already knew ella had cancer i know all the things to be grateful for i m staring at her right now and she is just smiling but some days are just harder than others and today is one of those days steve came home to a torn apart and half painted office tonight that was my therapy today and my way to not think about the pain my daughter went through our family went through tonight i just pray for the others and their families going through this right now cancer sucks blessings katie posted by unknown at 9 43 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday august 6 2016 self control with a side of oreo i had the opportunity to be a guest blogger this week take a peek if you have the chance blessings katie self control with a side of oreo posted by unknown at 10 29 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers blog archive 2017 1 february 1 kennedy 2016 10 december 1 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e kennedy hello if you followed our story then you might remember this little cutie yea to edan joy gelt gene khalimsky maddox khalimsky my advice to new cancer moms ella is a survivor i am still learning that this is the new reality last week we went to a survivorship meeting and reviewed all the dr about me unknown view my complete profile no more chemo ella 4th birthday watermark theme powered by blogger