Mike Fisher<\/p>\n
1972 – 2002<\/p>\n
It was 5 years ago today that my first husband passed away.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been very weird\u00c2\u00a0thinking about it.\u00c2\u00a0 It feels like such a long time ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe 5 years is a long time.\u00c2\u00a0 So much has happened and changed in\u00c2\u00a0my life.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m married again and have a new beautiful baby girl.\u00c2\u00a0 When Mike passed away, I wondered if there was any hope of having the joy of a new baby again.\u00c2\u00a0 I wondered about a lot of things.\u00c2\u00a0 How would my boys grow up without a father?\u00c2\u00a0 But in that first year after Mike died, God showed me again and again that He\u00c2\u00a0is their heavenly Father and that He would take care of us.\u00c2\u00a0 There were times when my oldest boy would say he felt God telling him He loved him.\u00c2\u00a0 Over and over that happened in the first year.\u00c2\u00a0 God was holding us very close.\u00c2\u00a0 And God did have a plan.\u00c2\u00a0 He was not taken by surprise at Mike’s death.\u00c2\u00a0 It was so cool (although an emotional roller coaster at times) to see how things worked out.\u00c2\u00a0 I married Mike’s best friend from high school, someone the kids knew from birth, and living right next door to us.\u00c2\u00a0 How amazing is that?!<\/p>\n
I miss Mike today.\u00c2\u00a0 He was a lot of fun, not perfect, but he made me laugh.\u00c2\u00a0 He was a good friend.\u00c2\u00a0 But I love my new life.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s better than I ever could have imagined it to be.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that’s what makes it feel weird.\u00c2\u00a0 Should I be this happy?\u00c2\u00a0 I think Mike would want me to be.\u00c2\u00a0 And he would have wanted the boys to have a father in their lives.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m glad\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>I know where\u00c2\u00a0Mike is and that I’ll have a chance to see him again.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m looking forward to that day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mike Fisher 1972 – 2002 It was 5 years ago today that my first husband passed away.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s been very weird\u00c2\u00a0thinking about it.\u00c2\u00a0 It feels […] Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}