Chemo is done for today! Long one: 9:00-1:45. But 2 down and 2 to go! Thank you for your prayers!!!!!! Good news! My hands seem to be doing ok! All of your prayers are working! Thank you so much. I am putting both my hands and feet on ice for 15 minutes at a time …
Round 2
Tomorrow is round 2 of this new kind of chemo. I didn’t do so well with the first round. My fingers suffered a bit… well… ok… a lot, and I was not feeling too good for several days. The oncologist said it wasn’t neuropathy but a reaction to the chemo. So tomorrow we try it …
Last Day of 2020
I love this! On this last day of 2020, I am looking back and making a list of all the good things that happened to me this year. I want to leave 2020 thankful for all God did during this difficult time. I have grown spiritually and emotionally, and I am so thankful for the …
1 Peter 1:6-9
Good morning! I am feeling much better this morning. I am still fighting a cold. But the chemo side effects have quieted down considerably, and I am feeling much more normal. A friend of mine sent me a Scripture from 1 Peter 1. I wanted to share verses 6-9 because it spoke to me, and …
Lift Up My Eyes
I will lift up my eyes to the hills. I will keep my eyes up and focused on where my help comes from. He has not failed me. He will not leave me. After 12 days, I am still struggling with this new chemo. But only physically. Spiritually I am safe, at peace, with my …
Looking for Jewels
I am finding these words to be so true. I have determined to walk this path and look, while I’m in the dark places, for the jewels. You can’t find them any place else. God has something special for me during this time, and I’m keeping my eyes focused on him, hanging onto the joy …
Merry Christmas 2020
Wishing all of my “family” of prayer warriors, sisters and brothers a blessed Christmas. You mean the world to me, and I could not walk this path without you!
Christmas Eve 2020
This is the first year in all the years that Ed and I have served at the Packinghouse–which is over 30 years as senior pastor, at least 4 as associate pastor, and several years teaching a Bible study and doing worship–that I won’t be at a Christmas Eve service. And of course, it’s going to …
Being Driven to Jesus
This is a quote from Joni Erickson Tada. Not only has she been in a wheelchair her entire life, she has been diagnosed with stage III breast cancer, fought through it, only to get it again. She fought through it and is now cancer free. Right now she’s battling Covid. This is the woman who …