Such happy news!! 💃🥂❤️ I’m a bit horrified that Mayo doesn’t have a bell to ring, though. Cancer patients need all the hoopla available!
I live in Michigan, and by February start looking at the real estate market down south (who am I kidding, their summers would be the end of me). I increasingly struggle with SAD as I get older and do all the things - walks outside when possible, light therapy, vitamin D. I told my husband last winter that we might just need to budget for a short trip somewhere warm every February for our sanity. 🤷♀️
I think I’m late to reading but I’m hearing that cowbell in all its glory! Hallelujah for the part with all the poking coming to an end. Forge on, sweet soul, forge on!
I have a notebook where I tried to keep track of all the ways people have helped us - Venmo donations, meals, errands, etc - and I’m sure I’ve missed things! And it’s impossible to know all the times and people who have prayed for us. It’s awe-inspiring.
So much for us to learn and lean into throughout this most excellent “essay” affectionately called your life! Congratulations on this arguably climatic milestone. As I read your words, and could hear your voice “audibly” speaking then, I couldn’t help but be brought back to “Patient Trust”, a reflection I turn to almost daily, that begins with “Trust in the slow work of God.”
And the final paragraph of Patient Trust: “Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ excerpted from Hearts on Fire
So here’s my prayer for you over these next, precisely 4 years, 5 months, and 10 days till you make it to 5 years cancer-free (but who’s counting): May your enthusiasm in hope and trust outpace any doubt, despair, or darkness.
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:5🔥🙏
Love the visual of you strolling out of the U wailing on a giant cowbell :-D Congratulations on this milestone and thanks so much for the updates! Also my winter survival kit includes Vitamin D, fish oil, and, every year on some cold dark day in January, hauling frozen strawberries and rhubarb out of my freezer and making a huge pan of strawberry rhubarb crisp as a giant middle finger to the snow and ice surrounding me ;-) Wishing you a sun-soaked summer!!
I sent a text about the looming darkness to my best friend today! She lives in California so she doesn’t understand but, for me in Ohio, this day is one of the worst. I relate wholeheartedly with all your sentiments about the looming darkness. Vitamin D and a Happy Light can only do so much.
You look so radiant in this photo!!
Such happy news!! 💃🥂❤️ I’m a bit horrified that Mayo doesn’t have a bell to ring, though. Cancer patients need all the hoopla available!
I live in Michigan, and by February start looking at the real estate market down south (who am I kidding, their summers would be the end of me). I increasingly struggle with SAD as I get older and do all the things - walks outside when possible, light therapy, vitamin D. I told my husband last winter that we might just need to budget for a short trip somewhere warm every February for our sanity. 🤷♀️
What a wonderful update, thank God and more cowbell!
HURRAH !! As a fellow Eyore, (sp?) I get it... but let it go!
This is ALL good,
love... Sr Catherine, RA
I think I’m late to reading but I’m hearing that cowbell in all its glory! Hallelujah for the part with all the poking coming to an end. Forge on, sweet soul, forge on!
So glad for you Laura! Your updates are a delight but also such a good reminder to pray pray pray for those who need it! 🙏🏼
I have a notebook where I tried to keep track of all the ways people have helped us - Venmo donations, meals, errands, etc - and I’m sure I’ve missed things! And it’s impossible to know all the times and people who have prayed for us. It’s awe-inspiring.
So much for us to learn and lean into throughout this most excellent “essay” affectionately called your life! Congratulations on this arguably climatic milestone. As I read your words, and could hear your voice “audibly” speaking then, I couldn’t help but be brought back to “Patient Trust”, a reflection I turn to almost daily, that begins with “Trust in the slow work of God.”
And the final paragraph of Patient Trust: “Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ excerpted from Hearts on Fire
So here’s my prayer for you over these next, precisely 4 years, 5 months, and 10 days till you make it to 5 years cancer-free (but who’s counting): May your enthusiasm in hope and trust outpace any doubt, despair, or darkness.
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:5🔥🙏
Love the visual of you strolling out of the U wailing on a giant cowbell :-D Congratulations on this milestone and thanks so much for the updates! Also my winter survival kit includes Vitamin D, fish oil, and, every year on some cold dark day in January, hauling frozen strawberries and rhubarb out of my freezer and making a huge pan of strawberry rhubarb crisp as a giant middle finger to the snow and ice surrounding me ;-) Wishing you a sun-soaked summer!!
I sent a text about the looming darkness to my best friend today! She lives in California so she doesn’t understand but, for me in Ohio, this day is one of the worst. I relate wholeheartedly with all your sentiments about the looming darkness. Vitamin D and a Happy Light can only do so much.