Then & Now…

Five years ago, this week, I was diagnosed…

After months of unexplained symptoms; extreme night sweats, weight loss of 30lbs, fevers every night, and enlarged lymph-nodes that did not respond to antibiotics…

The thing that had caused so much fear, confusion, and pain had a name…

Diffuse Large B Cell Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma…

Tuesday night this week, I sat with nine other woman and shared MY STORY at the woman’s support group in the Cancer Center where I received treatment…

I got to share truth and hope and practical ways to acknowledge and handle stress…I am struck by how things have come full circle…

About a month ago I felt like God gave me the word RESTORE…since then I have been thinking about all the ways that my life has been changed in the last years and how maybe it is time for a lot of things to be ‘restored’ in my life…spiritually, relational, and physically…I have a possible opportunity coming up that will change my whole world and I couldn’t be more excited…but even more than that, I have loved the closeness I have felt to God as I think on the word restore…and this is the verse that I am holding onto…

“It wasn’t so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, dupes of sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God’s gift has RESTORED our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there’s more life to come—an eternity of life! You can count on this.” Titus 3:3-8 (The Message)

Also I want to share with you my dream about how to celebrate 5 years of remission in November…and I am inviting YOU! A website has been set up where you can see what my inspiration for the party is, the dreams (ideas for what the perfect party would look like), and the date/location…

Come dream with me! I am taking any and all submissions of ideas for a fun party…I don’t want this thing to be a BLAST!!!!