My friend, Marcia, recently sent me a card containing a small page from her daily devotional in which a woman's journey with leukemia was chronicled. This woman was in partial isolation during those months, giving her much opportunity for reflection. She referred to that time as her time of "forced leisure".
Marcia had her period of forced leisure last year and I'm having mine now, and I look forward to the time when she and I can sit down over a cup of coffee and compare the many lessons we learned during that period of our lives. Thanks, Marcia, for your thoughtfulness.
I can again say with all honesty that I am grateful for this experience through which God is accompanying me and in a strange way I can say it is one of the greatest blessings in my life so far, and there have been many! I have never experienced God as I am experiencing Him now. Had He not called me through His Son, Jesus Christ, I would be a poorer person, unable to see the "Joy in the Journey", as musician Michael Card wrote and sang many years ago. ("There is a Joy in the Journey"-Michael Card).
I will not miss cancer when I am healed but I will miss my close times with God. I'm sure busyness will creep back but I know already that I will not allow that busyness to replace my precious times of communication with my Creator.
"The Lord your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save. He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing."-Zephaniah 3:14-20.
On the health front:
Gratefully, things are pretty steady and if all goes well I will have only three more radiation treatments and four POUS until this phase is over. Then it's back to the forced leisure of our weekly visit to the comfy recliner and my infusion chemotherapy for an as yet unknown period of time.
Keep praying! Your prayers are getting us through this.
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