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"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works."

– Frédéric Bastiat

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Your prayers are needed now more than ever

In a break from the political commentary and dissemination of libertarian philosophy, it needs to be said there is more to the world than those two items.

For all of you who have been visiting Don Kissick.com over the last year and a half, you know my wife, Marcy, was diagnosed in early May of 2011 with leukemia.

To be exact, it is AML: Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

Marcy and I are facing a development we knew was possible if not likely to happen. She has relapsed.

So, it is no longer AML but CML (chronic) that is the monster which must be conquered. Doing so will require a bone marrow transplant.

She received a call from her oncologist's office in January. He needed to see her no later than the following Tuesday to discuss some results from a blood draw done at her appointment earlier in the month.

We knew at that moment that could mean only one thing.

A lot of testing since then has confirmed it.

After a year's battle with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia and the intervening months since then, we are trying to mentally prepare ourselves for a new regimen of chemotherapy as well as the groundwork for a bone marrow transplant. The latter will be even more arduous on Marcy than the former.

Last year, when her final round of chemo was done and her most recent bone marrow aspiration showed she was in the clear, we thought we would be able to cling to a strand of hope (albeit a tenuous one) it would be over.

I would beseech anyone who reads this to please visit the bone marrow match registry and sign-up to receive a cheek swab kit. Maybe, just maybe, you could be a viable donor for Marcy.

Since then, I have been attempting to wrap my mind around this development. Part of that has been beseeching God for something... Anything! "Just please remind me you're there."

I am of a mindset there are no coincidences in this universe. Sometimes God does drop subtle hints that he's aware of what weighs on us – and that he's listening.

While I was partaking of a few minutes of solitude in my car during lunch at work last night, with the radio on, the song below played.

And, somehow, I knew all is not lost. The first song was a message of reassurance. It was followed by another song that invariably was a call to courage. Two songs, one after the other, I needed to hear right when I needed to hear them.

If I have to have enough faith for the both us – so be it.

Challenge accepted.

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Take a moment to get to know Don Kissick

Isn't life funny sometimes.

Over the course of 2010, I was a candidate for Congress, unemployed, back to work, unemployed again and back to work once more. What is curious is when I've been back on the job I've had less money at my disposal than when I was out of work and after my congressional run was done I seemed to have had less spare time than when I was on the campaign trail and working simultaneously.

I'm still trying to figure those two out. It's not unlike trying to sort out – all in one sitting – what women want from you, what really is God's plan for you, and what exactly is your puppy's way of letting you know it's time to let him out to do his business: contemplate all those points concomitantly and pretty soon there's smoke pouring out of your ears.

On the first one, at least, I got lucky when I met my wife, Marcy. All she asks of me is to be there for her and be someone on whom she can lean. With the health concerns and news she has had to grapple over the last few years, I'm frequently at a point where I can't help but fret that I'm not even meeting those two simple fundamentals.

But, these are the times that show us who we are and strengthen that bond between us to such a degree nothing can undo it.

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