I am Mimi's husband and am writing this post to inform our Ameba friends and family that on January 11th 2019 my beautiful wife Michiko Lara passed away and went home to Heaven. She was diagnosed with stage 4 terminal cancer 2 years ago and my focus has been to cherish, nurture and love my wife to the absolute best of my ability and to focus solely on her and our daughter Olivia. It has been a tough, heart felt 2 years filled with tears of both hardship and joy, absolute love and personal growth. The Lara family is grateful for close friends, family and her faithful readers that have showed us abounding and unfailing love in a way I have never witnessed. We thank you for your prayers of encouragement, service to our family and unceasing love through this process. Mimi taught me how to love without restraint, serve without expectation and forgive without reason. She gave me the best 10 years of my life; however, the greatest gift she left me with was our beautiful 4-year-old daughter Olivia. Mimi will be remembered not for having cancer, but for her love, her light and her ministering to those in need even as her body was failing. Anyone who spent even a moment of time with her can attest to this. Her legacy will live for generations to come and only at the end of my life when I join her above will I even begin to understand the impact and difference she has made and will continue to make in this world. Thank you all for your love. Rest in Peace Michiko Lara 5-20-1979 to 1-11-2019, Amen. 
