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Knight in Shining Armor
Husband re-proposes to his cancer-stricken wife
By JACQUELYN GUTC Of The Oakland Press
LOVE IT
I worked with Jason for over a year, both designers at a small studio.
I sat next to him and shared many silly conversations (over rubberband wars and plastic figurines), but we also shared very personal moments in our lives. Jason is not one to hide his emotions.
He opens his heart in the most honest and humbling ways. I remeber the day he told me his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. I’m a hopeless optimist and having seen both an aunt and uncle survive cancer, I wanted to ignore the fact that I had seen others loose the battle. I never wanted to admit what might seem impossible, but I had to this week. Lori, his wife and mother of two children had lost the battle when cancer had spead to her lungs and brain.
Believe it or not I left the funeral inspired. Jason, a man who believes in God, stood in front of a packed church and stated that he would never shake his fist at God. He was not Job. Job had suffured through much worse then he had. In a quiet moment of prayer God told him to smile when it didn’t make any sense. And he did. I’m often amazed at how intense moments of hurt and pain bring equally, if not stronger, moments of love and passion to our everyday lives. I left the funeral with all the power of love that had been brought together in that one church. The strength of so many was pulsing through me.
