March 2008
2 posts
I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the LORD. Psalm 118:17
at home now a week after brain surgery. being lazy feels good!
February 2008
5 posts
tests show i hav a 2 cm tumor in my brain. still in faith to overcome this mountain.
had my brain scan yesterday, have four more days to wait for the results. i am moment by moment choosing to walk in faith and victory.
waiting for answers to a million questions running through my head…
January 2008
17 posts
“We may yearn to come to rest in some small piece of pure humanity, a strip of...”
– R.M. Rilke
our 25th high school reunion unofficially starts today! so, so excited to see old friends. =)
just began my 12th (hopefully the last) chemo cycle.
FAMILY IN GRIEF
Heath Ledger’s family members bared their grief in an Australian newspaper, writing of the heart-wrenching loss of the Hollywood actor – who to them was always a brother or a son. In one of several messages in the death notices section of the West Australian on Friday, his mother Sally wrote: Our darling boy, special in so many ways to all of us. You knew you were so loved. You lived life...
365th day conquering cancer…and counting.
celebrating my and angela’s birthday today and one year of survivorship to make way for prayer and fasting which will start on wed.
CELEBRATING ONE YEAR OF SURVIVORSHIP
I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss. Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, ‘The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!’” Lamentations 3:20-24
something seriously wrong with my hearing. seems like everyone is screaming at me and bass is turned up high. must be a chemo side effect.
back to work on a rainy monday ;(
“Man is not born once and for all on the day his mother gives birth to him. ...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
December 2007
23 posts
happy new year everyone!
off to dinner with friends i haven’t seen for 25 years. been excited for it the whole week.
TIME MAGAZINE: The Year in Images →
From the campaign trail to wildfires in California to war in Iraq, TIME presents the best photographs of 2007
xmas service almost done and i’m taking home loads of food stuff from church pips. gah! calories galore..
watching stepmom on hbo with my daughter, pondering on and talking about the hard year we just had. tough but comforting movie to watch.
party with church staff at home. i’m poofed after cooking up a storm.
money is tight this christmas because of all the medical bills but love in my family abounds. there’s nothing more i want.
MODERN DAY "GARDEN OF EDEN" →
Describing it as the discovery of a “Lost World,” conservation groups and Indonesia on Tuesday said an expedition to one of Asia’s most isolated jungles had found several dozen new species of frogs, butterflies, flowers and birds. “It’s as close to the Garden of Eden as you’re going to find on Earth,” Bruce Beehler, a Conservation International scientist who led the expedition, said in a...
off to the beach for a xmas party with our school staff and teachers. thanking God for wonderful people to work with. they’re the best!
fourth oral cycle begins today. tenth chemo cycle all in all.
two weeks gone so fast. my brother and his family will be leaving in a few hours and we are now counting the days til we see them again. =(
THE BRICK TESTAMENT →
An illustrated Bible presented by The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith using lego bricks.
will end third oral chemo cycle today. so looking forward to relief from the two-week headache that comes with each cycle.
checking my mail by the poolside after an hour-long swim. this is the life!
“My whole life, I have felt like a self-sufficient person, a make-(bleep) happen...”
– Breast cancer survivor Sheryl Crow in her introduction to Kris Carr’s book,Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips.
loving the cool christmas air. thanking god that i have lived through the year to celebrate this season with loved ones.
November 2007
22 posts
exhausted after a full day…film screening, meetings, awarding, dinner with guests. and yes, chemo too.
