Strong and Healthy

I help "coach" Evelyn's swim team.

(Those of you you who know me well are laughing at the ridiculousness of that sentence right now, and I don't blame you!)

Anyway...

As I was reading through the heat sheets at one of the last meets of the year, I read a name that literally stopped me in my tracks. I flashed back in my mind to a very sick 2 year old little boy.  The younger brother of one of my preschool students.  He had leukemia.  The last I knew he was doing well, but it had been years since I last saw him or his parents.

And there was his name.  While he swam for another school, I was openly cheering for him, and had tears in my eyes.  This sick little boy had grown into a strong young man, and a really great athlete.

There really are no words for the joy I felt seeing him swim, strong and healthy.  Absolutely amazing.