The eternal optimist in me, everytime, figures that the chemo is going to be better. Not! The five days "going in" is really no big deal (once you get past the fact that you have to carry chemo around with you for 96 hours), but the five days "coming out" are a bitch, to put it mildly. You don't want to move. Your lips crack. Your throat is so sore that you get something to write on rather than talk. And, did I mention you don't want to move?
Well, I'm passed that today so it's on to something more fun. Working and playing.
I know you knew that I went to my granddaughter's wedding and was asked to say the "family blessing." I have been asked to "publish" it, so here it comes.
Our gracious Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the many blessing that you have already given Erin and Lynn. And, thank you for all the blessings that are being prayed down on then right now.
Lord, tonight, I would ask that you endow their lives with and extra layer of discernment.
First, to know when to share in word or deed, the love of your Son to those You place in their lives.
Second, wisdom to know "when to think before you speak." To understand that sometimes a word in anger or perceived hurt can cause pain that can take years to heal.
Third, that when they have children that they speak to them as one, tempered with Your teachings.
And last, that when they are blessed with grandchildren, they realize, along with their children, that these are their true stars in their crowns.
In Your Son's precious and Holy Name,
Amen
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Thanks for sharing this beautiful blessing and for sharing your journey through this past year.
ReplyDeleteTom and I are leaving this week for a holiday in New York State and City. Good news in our family. My brother Bill, whose wife died more than two years ago, is engaged and will marry Sandy in January. Also, our daughter, Sarah, is engaged to be married as well. This is her second marriage and will be the first for Jeff, an attorney in Angel Fire, NM. Their wedding will be in late December, though that is not settled. We will have a couple of days with Bill and Sandy in Bay Shore, NY, and do some other fun stuff.
Will check in when we return on October 7.
As always, I send you love and prayers for healing. I mentioned your name several times this morning during morning services at St. Christopher's Episcopal Church during the appropriate times in the liturgy.
Grace