To know Joey and Kerri is to love them. The news of both of them being diagnosed with cancer is heartbreaking. We've created this site so that you can get updates, offer help, and use the guest book to write thoughts of encouragement and love. The outpouring of love and support they are receiving is very wanted and appreciated, however there will be times in the future when the Lynchs may not be able to keep up with phone calls and visits. Please use this site as an alternative means to stay connected.


Monday, April 5, 2010

What you can do

We've created this site as a means for everyone to stay in the loop. With the medical treatments Joe and Kerri are looking at in the near future they are going to have some rough times ahead. Their roads won't be easy, only worth it.

Joe and Kerri have reached out to so many people in their lives, each of them separately and together as a team, they are always willing to help and give in any way they possibly can.

Now it is our turn to help. Through this site we would like to organize a help system for Joe, Kerri, Cam, and Caleb. Right now support, encouragement, and prayers are what is needed. There will be a time when meals, rides, other help may be needed. Please in the comments section leave the help you would like to donate, the time you are available, etc, etc.

Planned postings for this site include, first and foremost updates, and additionally, what the Lynch family would appreciate and enjoy for food, what help they may need around the house and town, and contacts to persons coordinating help.

3 comments:

  1. Kerri, Joe, Cam and Caleb,
    We are so sorry to get this unbelievable news. I wish we lived closer so that we could help in some way. Please know that you will all be in our prayers every day; you obviously have wonderful support in your friends and family. We will follow your recovery via your blog and if there is anything we can do on our end, PLEASE let us know. Our Love and Prayers.....Bob and Kathy Casey

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  2. Joe and Kerri:

    I send sincere prayers of positive outcomes for you both. I know you are both special, good-hearted people and -- that is usually the first requirement for the most positive outcome possible. The mind and your thoughts are exponentially more powerful than most of us know or understand. Make every conscious effort to use your thoughts to visualize and know that the outcome you desire is exactly what will happen. From there, a more powerful creative mind (we know as God) will take over. I want to share part of a poem written by William Blake that I came across recently that I wrote down and read often:

    To see a world in a grain of sand,
    and heaven in a wildflower;
    to hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
    and eternity in an hour.

    We are led to believe a lie,
    when we see with but not through the eye;
    that was born in a night, to perish in a night,
    when a soul sleeps in beams of light.

    I understand this to say that we can choose to see the world and everything in it as described in the first four lines of this poem, like seeing heaven in a wildflower.

    Or, we can do as the last four lines describe and basically end up living our entire life in darkness with the soul asleep.

    Every one of us will deal with life challenges and there is usually a lesson that can lead to a much more enriched life. You two are among the most sincere, nicest people I've ever met. Clearly, God sees this and has a plan. Take care.

    Mark Awalt

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  3. Kerri and Joe and the boys.
    We were shocked to hear about the bad news that has struck you guys. Without a doubt, you are some of the nicest people that we have ever known. We will keep you all in our prayers. Try to hang tough. I'm sure that you've heard this a lot lately,(rightfully so) But if there is anything at all that we can do for you, please let us know.
    And, Joe, I was thinking about what you said to me the last time you brought your excavator out to our house to dig a hole for Nancy. We certainly did appreciate it!

    Bob and Nancy O'H

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