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RAINA SIMPSON, MY DAUGHTER, WAS A WARRIOR. SHE RAN THE RACE AND PERSEVERED THROUGH A TERRIBLE STAGE FOUR CANCER DIAGNOSIS FOR FOUR LONG, GRUELING YEARS. RAINA HAD AN UNWAVERING VISION TO CREATE EYES ON YOU MINISTRY, TO HELP OTHER CANCER PATIENTS WHO STRUGGLED THROUGH THE OFTEN TUMULTUOUS UPS AND DOWNS OF CANCER TREATMENTS.

I WITNESSED MY DAUGHTER AS SHE FOUGHT THROUGH HER OWN JOURNEY, WHETHER THROUGH CHEMO, RADIATION OR CLINICAL TRIALS. IN EACH AND EVERY STAGE, SHE CONTINUOUSLY PUT OTHER PATIENTS BEFORE HER OWN STRUGGLES OFFERING STRIPTURE TO HELP EASE THEIR SUFFERING. GOD’S WORD WAS HER WAY OF GIVING COMFORT TO OTHERS, OFTER COMPLETE STRANGERS. HOWEVER, SHE WAS AIDING HERSELF SIMULTANEOUSLY WHILE WITNESSING TO OTHERS, WHICH GAVE HER SO MUCH COMFORT AS SHE WENT THROUGH HER OWN HORRIBLE CANCER JOURNEY.

TO CONTINUE MY DAUGHTER’S MINISTRY AND TO CONTINUE HELPING OTHERS WHO STRUGGLE THROUGH THIS HORRIBLE DIAGNOSIS, I THOUGHT OF THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE ALL OF THE WONDERFUL SCRIPTURES THAT HELPED RAINA PERSEVERE THROUGH THE EVERYDAY MENTAL, PHYSICAL, AND EMOTIONAL STRUGGLES OF FIGHTING CANCER.

PRAYERFULLY, THIS JOURNAL, FILLED WITH LOTS OF SCRIPTURES SHARED BY HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS AS WELL AS SCRIPTURES FROM RAINA’S OWN PERSONAL JOURNALS WHICH OFFERED HER CONFORT, WILL HELP CANCER PATIENTS TO KNOW THEY CAN LEAN ON GOD IN THEIR OWN STRUGLES. THEY WILL NEVER BE ALONE IN THIS BATTLE.

RAINA ALWAYS WANTED TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO KEEP RUNNING THE RACE WHILE KEEPING THEIR EYES FIXED ON JESUS. SHE GREIVED HOW CANCER AFFECTED HER FAMILY FIRST HAND AND HOW IT AFFECTED OTHERS. IN ADDITION, RAINA CONTINUOUSLY SHARED THAT NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, THE FINISH LINE WILL ALWAYS BE JESUS AS HE IS OUR GREAT REWARD!

SO AS YOU GO THROUGH THE STRUGGLES OF LIFE, TRYING TO NAVIGATE THROUGH YOUR CANCER JOURNEY, OUR PRAYERS ARE THAT GOD WILL GIVE YOU COMFORT THROUGH HIS WORD AS IT DID RAINA. OUR PRAYER IS THIS JOURNAL WILL PROVIDE LOTS OF HOPE, MANY WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, AND LOVE. KEEP RUNNING THE RACE. WE ARE HERE FOR YOU AT EYES ON YOU MINISTRY.

-RHONDA SMITH.
RAINA SIMPSON’S MOTHER.