Where We have Been.... Where We are Going...

What does all of this mean? Battling Life Together has started from a single package for a woman most of us had never met, to providing meals and gifts to a little girl and her family at Christmas. To deliver packages to a hospitals where instead of Santa Clause giving gifts requested a few ladies come together and strive to bring a smile to the face of someone facing the fight of their life.

So many sides of the world of Cancer. A young man diagnosed ready to fight and standing beside him his beautiful wife and family who are fighting for him and they are all fighting for the "normal" they had before the day the 'C' word changed everything.

A child that fought harder, longer and so many battles succumbs to the disease at the tender age of 9. His parents, his family who were making life happen in the life of cancer now begin again with learning the life without their baby. This can never be a new normal, life for them will carry on although it will never ever be the same. 

A teacher going to school everyday while fighting the fight and still making life seem normal to her students, even on the days when she is her sickest. Coming to school the first day when she has no hair and teaches like nothing changed.

A lady approached me recently and was touched by the mission of BLT and wanted to share her story. More than 10 years ago she went to the doctor for what to most people would have been a simple podiatry visit to end up being diagnosed with Leukemia and spending many weeks in the hospital. During her illness she collected more than 600 cards and the same day as we met she had sat down and looked through these cards and the emotion overwhelmed her at how each person had taken the time to think of her when she needed it most. 

These stories and so many more show the family and friends of Battling Life Together what it means to need someone to give them a lift, lend a hand or say a prayer at just the time that is right for them. Sometimes it is the cancer patient who teaches us how to be stronger how to fight harder and how to enjoy the days of what we would call normal.


Together we can do this... Together we will do this..... Always we will fight this....

Battling Life Together then and now and in the future we continue the mission we hope you will too.

When we join hands and hearts we can move mountains. Three ladies face the challenges of daily life, just a small undertaking considering the number of people fighting the daily battles for their life.

We are on a mission, a journey to make positive changes in the lives of others and in our own lives along the way. Reaching out our hands and our hearts to touch the lives of those in need. Maybe in need of a friend, in need of someone who will comfort them with a token of kindness. Over the last three years we have crossed the paths of wonderful caring people; some patients, some caregivers, some just like us on the path to share the love and commitment to help someone else and pay it forward.

We have found in this journey we are each being touched, healed in many ways ourselves. We have found the positive impact we are capable of in the world and how it is so contagious. Share your faith, share your kindness and it spreads like wildfire. So many people have given to Battling Life Together, not just monetarily or in donating supplies, in the kind words they share with others, in the way they feel the desire in their hearts to help others. We are so fortunate to have come together again, rekindled old friendships, created new ones and so blessed to share our experiences with others.

In a world so filled with sadness, poverty, suffering and pain we are Battling Life Together to provide Comfort, Support and Hope to others. We hope you will join us in this Battle and Together we will win the War!


Sincerely - The BLT Ladies

Thanks for the group photo:

Elizabeth Ann Photography
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