Unexpected Emotions

Sometimes you just need to have a good cry.

Lucky Seven

A package arrived via UPS today. Its contents were that of Temodar Round #7. My chemo pills used to come in standard prescription bottles or dark glass bottles from my local pharmacy, but a new year brings new policies. Introducing the giant warning label:

Makes you feel all giddy inside, right? :)

Our daily lives play out with routine acts---changing diapers, washing dishes, folding laundry, etc., until a package arrives, and you are once more reminded that life will never be the same. You cannot live as you lived before.

The same is true for those of us who accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior. You know your life will never be the same. Even if you turn your back on Christ and try to run the other way, He has already touched a place in your heart that cannot be filled by anything else. There will always be a void until you turn around.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. - 2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV

It's Twenty-Thirteen!

This past year was filled with too many moments of feeling alone and disconnected. My goal for 2013 is to rise above my circumstances and become more intentional about forming/nourishing relationships. I will have to think hard and get creative since I can't drive, don't work outside my home (due to aforementioned circumstance), and have no social life.

At least I know my relationships with the doctors and the nurses won't be ending anytime soon. I am in the middle of Round 6 of Temodar, and Dr. Moots recommended another six rounds to which Kevin quickly nodded yes.

This journey sometimes feels as if it will never end, but I know there will be a day...