We believe she was in heaven with Jesus on Valentine's Day.

So Valentine's Day for us is really weird when we start having other children.

We'd have like a party, a homecoming celebration for her going to heaven on that day.

That'll never be a romantic holiday for us.

God's story, your life.

Unfolding short stories.

Every year on Valentine's Day, Lee and Terry commemorate their daughter Amanda's passing,

including a homecoming celebration for her going to heaven.

In today's story, they recount the lead-up to the

discovery of their daughter's brain tumor. They process the emotions, the impact on their faith,

and the unlikely survival of their own relationship considering all that they lost. In 1985,

they noticed their little girl Amanda was experiencing some new sickness. She was throwing up,

having headaches, and when that began to subside, one day they noticed she was now unable to walk

straight. She started getting to the point where I'd watched her walk down the hall and then she'd

fall down and thinking, she's walking worse now than she did when she learned how to walk.

So we took her to the family doctor and said, we don't want to leave here until you find out what's wrong.

He took her out in the hall and he said, Amanda, follow me.

So he ran like backwards and she ran forwards and he watched her.

And then he came back with her into the room and said, you need to go to a neurologist.

And so she was scheduled to have an MRI.

But that wasn't for like three weeks.

And the day before the MRI, they called and said, because she is so young, she'll need

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