Rory Feek Shares Family Photo, Says He’s 'Broken-Hearted and Blessed'
Joey Feek was diagnosed with cervical cancer in May 2014.
— -- As Joey Feek continues her battle with terminal cervical cancer, her husband Rory is explaining why he feels "broken-hearted and blessed."
In the caption of a photo that Rory posted to his Facebook page on Wednesday, the country-singer explained the emotions he felt while watching Joey interact with their nearly 2-year-old daughter, Indiana.
"Feeling broken-hearted and blessed all at the same time this morning... watching my beautiful bride pour a lifetime of love into a few minutes a day," Rory wrote.
The photo shows Indiana sitting on her mother's bed, taken from an angle in which only the top of Joey's head is visible.
Joey, 40, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in May of 2014, and late last year she entered hospice care in her childhood home in Alexandria, Indiana.
Rory, 50, has been chronicling Joey's cancer battle in his blog "This Life I Live," and on Thursday, the country singer discussed one of the ways that "part of [Joey]" will be with their family after she dies.
In a new blog entry titled, "Sowing Seeds," Rory explained how Joey is preparing for springtime, and notes that this season is "something she might not even get to see at all."
"So thin and gaunt, and more frail than ever, my wife is sowing her seeds – putting down roots in the soil of our lives and hearts," Rory wrote.
Rory revealed that Joey asked him to maintain her garden after she dies, "because it’s important to her."
"Planting a garden and raising food that she can feed her family is part of who Joey is," Rory wrote. "That doesn't stop just because you have cancer or are stuck in a bed for months-on-end. Life goes on. And what was important, is still important to her."
Rory noted that Joey has been helping him prepare to maintain the garden when she is no longer with him, and explained why he will honor her wishes, even though he "[doesn't] really want to know" the gardening tips.
"I often sit beside her as she talks to me about the garden and tries to teach me the things I will need to know...I take notes in my laptop, but I don’t really want to know. Not really," Rory wrote. "I just want her to be able to be in the garden – this year and twenty more after it...But still, I sit beside her and smile and listen and take notes. And I will keep the garden going. Joey’s garden."
"I’m sure in time, I will learn to love it too," Rory continued. Because she loved it. And part of her will be with us… in every seed we plant, and every vegetable we harvest … and every bite we take."
