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Seven months ago today (the last day of June), my husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. At the time, they said he had 6 months to a year to live. The last day of every month since then, I wake counting months. So this morning, I woke thinking, "It's been seven months -- he's beating the odds!"
The doctors say his tumor is still there and still malignant and still life-threatening, but that due to chemotherapy and radiation, it is currently "stable and calm". The doctors might credit chemotherapy and radiation, but I also credit prayers and love and faith. The doctors warn, however, that at any moment the tumor could begin to act up, in many different ways. So, we won't think about that, or worry about when it is coming. We will just rejoice and thank God that TODAY it's been seven months, and he is "stable and calm". "Stable and calm" is a good way to be!
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OK -- So I just posted that "accept" was my word for the year, and Billizetti comes up with a drawing challenge. Well, I guess I have to accept it! <grin>
I can't draw (yet?). I can never make my drawings look like anything. But I am going to try.
I am setting aside one morning a week (Thursday morning) to be my "drawing morning". So, tomorrow we see what we see.
Wish me luck!
AB
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One of my eMail friends sent me this URL:
www.cristinekane.com/blog
and said to check out the entry for December 28. I did, and it changed the way I think about New Year's Resolutions for this year. The suggestion from Christine is to choose a word to be your goal for the coming year, and let it apply to everything. She said she chose "release", and it helped her lose weight, let her almost-adult son be more independant, and so on.
So, I have been praying about and thinking about a word for this coming year. I think maybe "accept" -- accept what comes as from the Lord's hands, and be content in it. So, I will try to accept good advice, accept good days as gifts, accept bad days as learning and growing experiences. As I look at the coming year, I have a lot of fears and doubts. I will try to accept the fears and doubts, as well -- to let myself admit that I am afraid and I do have doubts. And I will accept the challenge of being joyful anyway!
So -- no New Year's Resolution. Instead, a word for the year -- accept.