A lingering, deep cough and flu-like symptoms were the harbinger of devastating news for Jim Littleton, age 53, who two years ago was diagnosed with an advanced stage of cancer.
While Jim is known by some as the founder and president of a small insurance adjusting company just outside of Chicago, Littleton Claims Service, he is best known as a Catholic father of 14 children — aged 5 to 25 — and as an man of deep faith and outspoken Catholic conviction. He says his main concern is raising his children with the help of his wife Kathleen in the ways of Christ.
“We have been truly blessed. Our children are a gift from God, and with that gift comes a great responsibility,” said Jim and Kathleen Littleton, who have 12 daughters and 2 sons, with another five children lost to miscarriages.
“To those to whom God has given much, much will be asked of.”
The living children are Shannon, Tara, Grace, Colleen, Deirdre, Bridget, Shane, Fiona, Maura, Clare, Patrick, Mairead, Brighde, and Shealagh.
While Jim and Kathleen in no way consider themselves “masters or prime examples” of family life, they nonetheless felt a “strong calling” a few years ago to share the “gift” of what they had learned through their family life in a book titled: “Better by the Dozen Plus Two: Anecdotes and a Philosophy of Life from a Family of Sixteen” (Lulu press, 2007).
“We try to live the things we preach the best we can, yet, we admit, dreadfully imperfectly,” they say.
Read more here...
No comments:
Post a Comment