Saying Good-Bye to Frodo | by Linda Brendle

Leanne, a good friend of mine, recently started a blog called “Being Sam”  based on Sam Gamgee in “The Lord of the Rings.” In her blog she explores what it means to be Sam, to walk alongside another, to be “swept up in another’s journey and struggle.  The journey is not mainly [Sam’s], but he walks alongside Frodo faithfully and stubbornly.” That’s a perfect description of Leanne. She’s spent her life helping others, as a teacher, as a counselor, as a caregiver, and now in Blue Cord Ministries,  a counseling ministry that serves those in the midst or aftermath of cancer.