Gratefulness
Gratefulness…that’s the word that describes best how I feel. It’s been almost a month since my last chemo treatment and I am overwhelmed with gratitude to the Lord for all He has done for me and my family.
I’ve been meaning to write sooner, but every time I thought about this blog, I’d get nauseated. Weird. There are a lot of things that make me nauseated. Like pretzels – I ate them during my first chemo treatment; the smell of hand sanitizer - they use a lot at the hospital; water bottles – I drank out of one during every chemo treatment; drug commercials – I saw hundreds while lying sick in bed and they’d make me so sick I’d have to turn the channel. That’s just a few of the things that make me sick. Anyway, I’ve wanted to write, but I also wanted to just forget the whole thing ever happened.
I’m doing well and loving life. Jamie and I baked a cake (it was her idea) in celebration of chemo being over. She decorated it all in pink and then Jodie wrote, “Yahoo, We’re Through!” on top. It was the first time in months that I could just relax and truly enjoy the moment.
I’m also back to work teaching CORE 100 and working as the Assistant to the Chaplain at SAU. This past weekend I went to Cedar Bend with the CORE group. The weather was superb and the colors up in Mancelona, Michigan were at their peak. It was breath-taking. As the students sang around the campfire at night I sat in wonder and awe at all the Lord has done for me.
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade – kept in heaven for you, who through faith have been shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed at the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” I Peter 3-9
With Joy and Victory,
Janice
I’ve been meaning to write sooner, but every time I thought about this blog, I’d get nauseated. Weird. There are a lot of things that make me nauseated. Like pretzels – I ate them during my first chemo treatment; the smell of hand sanitizer - they use a lot at the hospital; water bottles – I drank out of one during every chemo treatment; drug commercials – I saw hundreds while lying sick in bed and they’d make me so sick I’d have to turn the channel. That’s just a few of the things that make me sick. Anyway, I’ve wanted to write, but I also wanted to just forget the whole thing ever happened.
I’m doing well and loving life. Jamie and I baked a cake (it was her idea) in celebration of chemo being over. She decorated it all in pink and then Jodie wrote, “Yahoo, We’re Through!” on top. It was the first time in months that I could just relax and truly enjoy the moment.
I’m also back to work teaching CORE 100 and working as the Assistant to the Chaplain at SAU. This past weekend I went to Cedar Bend with the CORE group. The weather was superb and the colors up in Mancelona, Michigan were at their peak. It was breath-taking. As the students sang around the campfire at night I sat in wonder and awe at all the Lord has done for me.
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade – kept in heaven for you, who through faith have been shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed at the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” I Peter 3-9
With Joy and Victory,
Janice
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