Everyone's family is full of people that show life is worth living.  Here are some of the people in my family who have shown me that their lives are or were worth living.

My mom and her brother, my Uncle Frank, were both adopted from different parents.  Their birth parents respected their lives enough to give up their children to a family that would be able to love them, take care of them, and give them a life that they couldn't, to give them a life worth living.  My mom always talks about how being adopted makes her so much more appreciative of the life she is living.  She was given this opportunity because of the great sacrifice her birth parents had to make, and the great strength of her adopted parents.

Her mother, my Grandmother Florence, fought long and hard because her life was worth living.  After being diagnosed with a disease that should have killed her at a young age, my grandmother lived 30 years longer.  My Grandfather Frank had passed away when my mother was a year and a half.  Grandma Florence knew that her life was worth living because she had two children.  She would make sure that her children had a life worth living.

Another person in our family that continues to show me life is worth living, no matter how hard, is my Uncle Roland.  He was born with the umbilical cord around his neck.  This caused him to be born with brain damage and have many physical disabilities.  His life is worth living because even though he needs help with bathing, dressing, eating and just living, he is so happy to be at my house sometimes, listening to music, dancing and going for a milk shake.  My Uncle Roland's life is worth living because he shows me and he teaches me every time I see him, how blessed my life is.

My life is worth living!