15-Year-Old Will Roberts Passes Away After Courageous Battle With Cancer “Will is

15-Year-Old Will Roberts Passes Away After Courageous Battle With Cancer

“Will is finally ringing his forever cancer free bell as he entered the gates of Heaven!!!

At 12:45am(central time)today, on my birthday, our precious Will took his final breath on this earth and entered the presence of Jesus.

Me, Jason, Charlie, granny, and my dad gathered around his bed and loved on him until the doctors could get everything together to prepare and remove the oxygen and increase sedation. Once that time came, me and Jason were the only ones with him when he took his last breath.

There isn’t a mother alive who could ever find the right words to write a post like this. I have stared at this screen, started over more times than I can count, and the truth is… there are no words big enough for a loss like this.

For the last year and a half, so many of you have walked this journey beside us. You have prayed when we didn’t have the strength. You celebrated every victory with us and cried through every setback. You loved Will like family, and we will spend the rest of our lives grateful for every single one of you.

Will was so much more than cancer.

Will was the funniest person in the room. Will had a personality that could light up a hospital floor. Will was stubborn enough to drive us crazy one minute and make us laugh the next. Will loved hard, fought harder, and never stopped believing there was another mountain to climb.

I have said from the beginning that God was going to use Will’s life for His glory. I still believe that today.

Over the last year and a half, we have watched complete strangers become family. We have watched churches across the country pray for a child they had never met. We have watched nurses become some of our closest friends. We have watched people come back to God, strengthen their faith, and believe in the power of prayer because of Will. That wasn’t an accident. God has been writing a story through Will that was always so much bigger than us.

Will fought until the cancer today showed more progression of disease in his brain effecting his mental capacity. Jason and I made a very selfless decision tonight to stop the suffering.

No child should have had to endure what Will endured. Yet every single day, Will found a reason to smile, crack a joke, encourage someone else, or remind us all what real strength looked like. Will never quit. Neither did we.

We prayed for healing every single day. We begged God for one more miracle. While our hearts desperately wanted healing here, God chose complete healing in Heaven.

What a beautiful gift that God gave me today on my birthday….a celebration that there is no more cancer and Will entered into the kingdom of Heaven!!!! What better gift could I have received than to know my baby boy is sitting with Jesus and is cancer free….

As shattered as our hearts are tonight, I know exactly where Will is and he is not suffering. That is the only thing giving me the strength to write these words.

Thank you all for loving Will.

Thank you for praying. Thank you for believing. Thank you for carrying our family when we couldn’t carry ourselves.

Our story with Will didn’t end today. It simply changed chapters. We will spend the rest of our lives making sure the world knows who Will was, what God did through Will’s life, and how one fifteen-year-old changed more lives than most people ever will.

Until I see you again, Will…I love you more than words will ever be able to say. It has been the greatest honor of my life to be your mama.

I will later make a post on the gratitude that we have for all of the staff at Rady’s Hospital. It’s unbelievable the support shown to us tonight and throughout our stay here. The love they’ve given us all.”

From Brittney Battles Roberts