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Rachel's Road...... 
Life if not measured by the number of breaths we take
but by the moments that take our breath away.
Rachel lived a very big life.
Rachel Lynn Hansen
April 20, 2000 - June 8, 2007
Welcome to Rachel's Web Page. It has been provided to keep people updated about little Rachel and her road ahead.
The Journal will be updated on a consistent basis, so please come back and keep yourself updated on Rachel's road ....
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Mailing address for cards & gifts:
Rachel's Road
Box 51
Webster, MN 55088
(To send a monetary gift please visit the Benefit Fund page for information)
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Quilt of Love
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Journal
Saturday, June 6, 2009 2:21 PM CDT Two years. How can it be two years? They are the worst two years of my life. I don't think there is anything that could ever happen that would be worse than losing a child ... except to lose another one. If there is, I don't want to experience it because this has been so wretchedly horrible. Not that there isn't joy and laughter, smiles and fun, and enjoyment of life and events ... because there is. Yet they are always twinged with the sadness that is our new reality. That sadness-- that longing, it will just always be there.
"Forever healed, the miracle did come, even though it came with goodbye--" wrote a teenager from Lakeville South Highschool, whom we do not know, in a poem for our family about Rachel just a few weeks after her death. It was not what we wanted, it wasn't what we expected, it certainly wasn't what we prayed for. But it was the answer we received. Healed, but gone. We had to say goodbye to not only the cancer, but to her.
No, we don't have to like our answers, but we do have to accept them. We don't have to understand God's ways, but we do have to accept them. We don't have to see to believe, understand to accept, or hold it to love it. It just is. What are you going to do about it? How are you going to change it? The answer is: Nothing and you aren't.
Reinhold Niebuhr got it so right in his Serenity Prayer.
"God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen."
Trust in the LORD with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6
Specific Prayers:
~For continued peace for our family.
~That our family will forever trust Christ to know what's best.
CANCER SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Read Journal History
Hospital Information: There is no longer a need for a hospital
As Rachel is currently living in the arms of Jesus
Links: http://www.umm.edu/bone/eweingssarcoma.html Ewings Sarcoma Description
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