In Loving Memory ...

of Rachel Lynn Hansen (April 20, 2000 - June 8, 2007)

Please keep the Hansen family (mom Jodi, dad Mark, big brothers Lance and Blake) in your prayers. Rachel lost her many year battle with Ewing's Sarcoma today. We can only imagine what the family is going through right now. Our heart it breaking for them.

Edited to Add: This is particularly difficult for us too because Rachel and her Mommy and Daddy have been our hope and inspiration. We have looked up to them for their fight and their ability to go beyond, far beyond, what the doctors have told us could ever be possible. Please check her site and, if appropriate for you please add to her guestbook.

For right now there are a couple of things in their post today that jumped out and we wanted to share here: (Please see their who post at the link above or to the right.)

"And so I write one more journal entry that I never thought I'd have to write. As I sit here with tears streaming down my face, I wonder how so many of us misinterpreted our "promises" from God. We are thankful for all of the angels that filled our home and gave Rachel peace. We truly feel that Rachel wasn't telling us the full story about what the angels were telling her. Her and the angels had secrets. I guess that's okay because what would we have done with the information?
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Rachel is perfect and whole. Rachel will never again endure any pain. Rachel is with our Lord Jesus Christ and with her Nana Eide and her Papa Hansen. We are thankful that they were there to guide her passing into the next dimension. We're pretty positive that Rachel went running into their arms and once she saw how beautiful it was there, she chose not to come back. We can't say we blame her."

The beautiful white rose that has touched so many of us in so many ways is by and used with permission from Australian photographer Lisa Hocking Please see her blog and thank her for its use.