My daughter, Beth aka June Elizabeth, has faced unimaginable challenges the last two years. After a life-changing transplant surgery, she became physically disabled and is no longer able to work. While waiting for her disability determination, she spent all of her savings keeping up the household, the moment she was spent she lost her home and was forced to live in her car for months, all in effort to stay nearby her son. You see, My Beth doesn’t know how to ask for help as she has always been the one that shows up first to help others. It’s just in her blood like that.  

But, Gratefully, my son William, her big brother, found out how she was living and immediately offered her a safe place to stay with him, but it meant moving 1,000 miles away from her home in Chicago and, most heartbreakingly, away from my 12yr old grandson. That was the most difficult decision I’ve ever seen her have work through. 

Her inability to earn an income makes it impossible for her to return to her son in Chicago until her Disability goes through. Which we pray will be soon since it’s been 1.75+ years already.

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The family has depleted all of our resources at this point and cannot provide any further financial support. Beth has been separated from my grandson, her only child, for months now and it has been so overwhelmingly dreadful for both of them. Though they talk over phone for hours every day, with his birthday coming up quickly on December 26th, the distance feels unimaginably painful. It just breaks my heart. The cost of round trip flights from Chicago to Daytona Beach is simply out of reach for us right now, especially for an unaccompanied minor (extra $300 RT). It is Beth and her son’s greatest wish to be reunited and celebrate his birthday (and a Merry Christmas) together.

We are asking for help to cover travel expenses and to give her son a special birthday celebration he most certainly deserves. The birthday party is scheduled on Jan 2nd. Any support you can offer to help bring Beth and her son together again would mean the world to our family.

No denomination is too small as every single dollar adds up and will be spent on HIM. If you’re unable to help at all financially, we certainly understand and are grateful for your prayers from whatever faith you honor. And we will pray for you and yours in return.

Either way, PLEASE SHARE this post PUBLICLY in your social networks with hope that others may want to directly help a single mother in dire need of assistance through this Christmas and Birthday season. 

Thank you for reading and for caring about my family’s story.  

    - Cathy