There
is a woman who dedicated much of her life to helping others and making
sure she lived her life to the very fullest. Jane Smith had always had
trouble staying in one city or state for a long period of time - she
wanted to travel and see the world.
When her husband was diagnosed with two different kinds of terminal cancer, Jane
decided to take her husband to Alaska. “I wanted my husband to see all
of the beautiful things God made for the last time.” She says. The doctors
told her that her husband only had two or three months left to live, but to everyone’s
surprise he lived six and a half years instead of those few months. Jane said
it was the people that helped her husband have a little extra time. “The
people up here are different, in big busy cities no has time for one and other
but here everybody cares for everybody,” she says smiling.
Jane was devastated when her husband finally died, but at the same time she was
knew he was in a better place. The pain of the cancer was incredibly horrible
and now she knew he wasn’t in any more pain. “God was there for my
husband and I. There are some things you can’t face by yourself, when you
have cancer there are friends, family, and doctors but they are there for moral
support sometimes you need a thing called Hope,” Jane said, with so much
confidence radiating from her. “I live my life by the quote ‘Kindness
is something the blind can see and the deaf can hear.’ It makes me feel
good knowing that I have worked with people in need. I feel like I’ve given
a little something back to the world. I think the point of my life is to help
others… I’m not just here for me.” |