I was watching the morning show the other day ~ and there was a segment on Susie Mann  jumping out of an airplane and feeling the thrill of skydiving for the first time. What makes her experience different from other inspirational stories is that Mann, 79, was diagnosed with terminal intestinal cancer last spring.

What's Susie doing with her diagnosis? She's taking the opportunity to live her life to the fullest!  It made me think of that Tim McGraw song - Live Like You Were Dying...

The skydiving adventure is just one of a series of adventures to be checked off of this grandmother's "Bucket list." Check out HER  blog.

The first adventure she completed from the list was hang gliding in Middletown, New York, in early August. Swimming with dolphins and riding a donkey through the Grand Canyon are next on the agenda...

Mann says she looks at her diagnosis as an opportunity. "I don't think I've ever been scared of the unknown. I think I take it as a challenge," she said.

"Dying is just another page of life, just a different journey in a different place," she added.

Recently I was at Active Rain's  Gary Mcninch's wife Jesse Joy's Celebration of Life...and such a beautiful Celebration it was! It was an inspiration to hear Jesse's story and how she lived both her life and through her diagnosis......So much faith, spirit and courage ....It was a privilege to be privy to and pariticipate hearing of the Love Story - that was Gary & Jesse's....and of a Love that Never Ends.

These past 2 years I've been to many Celebrations, Funerals & Memorials.....and they've done much to have me pause and think about this life that I am living.

To be  afraid and not let it stop us...in light of circumstances beyond our control - to not let it stop us from experiencing life to its fullest.  Being brave is not so much about not feeling fear but being comfortable facing it because you have Faith...and Joy.

If you or someone you know is thinking of Buying or Selling property in Chilliwack, Hope, Abbotsford, Langley or anywhere in the Fraser Valley Area of B.C. - or if you would like more information please give Liz  Moras of Landmark Realty Chilliwack a call at- 604-799-0459 or e-mail at lizmoras@gmail.com.     

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