A Sent With Love Warrior Mom Shares ✨

Tanya & Leah Faith at the Annual KidsFest last year.

Unless you’ve walked this path, it’s hard to understand how deeply the little things matter. When a child is fighting cancer, life becomes a journey of hospital stays, treatments, and moments filled with uncertainty. Holidays, birthdays, and milestones that should overflow with joy become days marked by monitors, prayers, and sleepless nights.

This is why faith-based nonprofit organizations like Sent With Love are such a blessing. They may not change the diagnosis, but they change the experience. They bring light into the darkest rooms, joy into weary hearts, and hope into moments that feel too heavy to carry alone. They remind families like mine that God still sends people to uplift us—just as His Word teaches us to lift one another up.

“Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:11

For families like mine, their kindness isn’t just appreciated—it’s essential. In the midst of fear and exhaustion, they gave Leah something to smile about. They gave me something to hold onto. Their work matters because even in the hardest battles, joy still matters.

To Sent With Love —thank you. Thank you for the light you shine, for the love you give, and for the hope you carry into hospital rooms. What you do is more than kindness… it is ministry, and it is life-giving.

And to everyone reading this—if you are able to support organizations like Sent with Love Motts and/or other nonprofits, please do. Whether through giving, volunteering, or simply sharing their mission, your kindness can become the miracle someone is praying for.

Leah’s journey has been long and difficult, but through it all, God’s faithfulness, the love of others, and the generosity of these beautiful organizations have carried us. And as we continue navigating this new normal, I hold tightly to this truth: Even in the hardest battles, God still makes room for joy, hope, and people who lift us up.

In this season of gratitude, my heart is especially thankful for Jennifer Rice, the Sent With Love team, and the amazing volunteers who make every gesture so special.

Every single personalized card they send — the way they consider each member of our family, even sending the kids parents cards for their birthdays, and considering that she’s bilingual. It’s the little details that make the biggest difference.

We’ve lost count of the beautiful letters, books, cards, and gifts they’ve sent to my child. And the fact that they haven’t forgotten her even after treatment… that is something truly beautiful. Most nonprofit organizations understandably focus their resources on children currently in treatment, but the compassion of those who continue bringing smiles even after the hair has grown back, even after the hardest days have passed — that is love, empathy, and kindness in action.

Thank you for continuing to brighten our journey. 💛🙏