We were at the beach with family back in late May when I got a text saying my sweet friend, Cindy Allinder Coe, would most likely not make it through the night. Many people who loved her prayed and asked God for more time. She made it through that night to improve. Cindy was a fighter. She didn’t fight people, but she fought cancer for years with everything in her mind, body, and soul! She never wanted anyone to feel sorry for her! She fought hard and with a positive attitude! She still made people laugh and she still wore that awesome smile! God answered our prayers and gave us a little over two more months with her.
During those two months she kept fighting. She wanted out of her hospital bed so she could sit in her chair at the kitchen table. We tried to get her to accept that she couldn’t do that. Not our Cindy! On July 2, I got on FB to see a photo of her in her chair, sitting at the kitchen table eating soup by herself.
Tonight, August 8, 2019, our friend, our fighter, took her last breath. Some might say she lost the battle. I say she won. She fought with dignity and lived her life as if every day could be her last. She loved her friends and we loved her. She fought for life so hard that God took her to Heaven where she could be whole again. She got her legs back. She isn’t rolling around Heaven in a wheelchair. She is running up and down the streets of gold with her precious parents who loved all of us like we were theirs. She is racing with her brother Mike who she hadn’t seen for years! They are showing her around her new neighborhood.
Yes! She didn’t lose the battle. She won the race of life. When she arrived in Heaven, I am sure God told her, “well done, my good and faithful servant!”
We here on earth have not experienced the joy she must feel tonight! Our earthly bodies hurt and we grieve our loss. We will miss our sweet friend but will rejoice that she is healed! No more pain, no more suffering, no more struggling to breathe, and no more cancer!!
We, who know Jesus as our savior, will see you again, Cindy. What a reunion that will be! In the meantime, will love and take care of each other and make sure to keep Dean, Phillip, and Marsha in our prayers as they learn a new normal here on earth without you.
Good-bye sweet angel! You did good and we are all better people for having known you!