here goes the email:
The girl in the picture is Katie Kirkpatrick, she is 21 . Next to her, her fiancé, Nick, 23.
The picture was taken shortly before their wedding ceremony, held on January 11, 2005 in the US . Katie has terminal cancer and spend hours a day receiving medication.
In the picture, Nick is waiting for her on one of the many sessions of quimo to end.
In spite of all the pain, organ failures, and morphine shots, Katie is going along with her wedding and took care of every detail. The dress had to be adjusted a few times due to her constant weight loss
An unusual accessory at the party was the oxygen tube that katie used throughout the ceremony and reception as well. The other couple in the picture are Nick's parents. Excited to see her son marrying his high school sweetheart.
Katie, in her wheelchair with the oxygen tube , listening to a song from her husband and friends
At the reception, katie had to take a few rests.The pain does not allow her to stand up for long periods
Katie died five days after her wedding day. Watching a woman so ill and weak getting married and with a smile on her face makes us think..... Happiness is reachable, no matter how long it last. We should stop making our lives complicated.
how wonderful it is to received this kinda love and happiness. this is how Jesus loves us as he sacrifice himself on the cross to bear all our shameful sins (huiyooo...still can relate this story with Good Friday...lol) but anyhow, this story gave us a big moral value that is "unconditional love". it is easy to love some1 with condition but it is hard to love some1 unconditionally. try imagine u trying to hug a slum kid. sure u'll say "ewwwwwwwwwww". that is y it is hard to love uncondotionally. it's a big lesson to us.
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