The above video hardly does Emily Wierenga justice. I would have re-recorded it over and over if it weren’t for the children she mentioned hanging on all sides. I adore her, her words, her tender way of seeing the world broken and how she loves it.

Her family struggles now, her mother-in-law battling breast cancer. She runs this Sunday on her mother-in-law’s behalf, a race for the cure.

The struggle is real for so many of us, and even as Emily prepared to run this race, her doctor found a lump in her own right breast. Some struggles become Tangible. A mammogram on Monday will tell whether Emily’s lump is benign or not.

Would you please pray for Emily and for her mother-in-law?

Would you consider donating even a few dollars for Emily’s race tomorrow?

Thank you, friends. This community of bloggers is nothing if we can’t reach through the screen in tangible ways when the opportunity comes. Reaching through, the skin-to-skin of life here on earth, it is beautiful, worth running for and worth saying aloud with the mouth.