Day 319 www.LoveYourButt.org

No, don't worry.  I'm not promoting a porn site or a weight loss or exercise site.  www.loveyourbutt.org is the website for Chris4Life, a charitable foundation donated to colorectal cancer awareness.   As a matter of fact, March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.  If you were following me way back when, you know I was a little frustrated over the fact that colon cancer had none of the pretty pink ribbons and bling and high profile spokespersons that breast cancer has.  I worried that if there was a symbol, it would probably be an ugly brown ribbon.  Wah wah.  Well, I'm happy to announce that there is a colorful beautiful symbol and here it is.

The theme is to get a colonscopy, that it's much easier than chemo and I'm here to testify that that statement is so true.  At church last night, Pastor RO asked if I could have made it this far without God in my life and I answered truthfully that, no, I couldn't have done it without Him.  But I was reminded too that a couple of times I had called my daughter crying that I was so sick that she could just drop me off at hospice and let me die.  Uh oh, here I go with the pity party again.   And then there's Sadie.  Nothing like the bravery of a child fighting this horrible enemy to really put things in perspective.

 

Precious Sadie has finished her treatment at St. Judes for brain cancer and is headed back home to Texas.  This picture was taken her last evening at the Ronald McDonald House. 



Please join me in prayer for her and her family as she continues her fight at home.  I just learned that Sadie is only home until March 23rd and then it'll be back to St. Jude's for more treatment.  And remember Valerie Harper who played Rhoda in the old Mary Tyler Moore Show.  She has been given a short time to live because of brain cancer after defeating lung cancer several years ago.  

I was reading in Exodus this morning as a followup to seeing The Bible on Sunday night.  The Israelites had to fight the Amalekites over and over and over.  It was sort like the cancer that can reappear at a time of weakness.  The note in my study Bible said this:

"Like many of the challenges of our lives, the enemy is not destroyed in a single battle but through a series of encounters over a long period of time."

My prayer today is that when God destroys cancer in any of us, that it be so completely obliterated that it never returns. 

Thank you for praying with me today and don't forget..... slow down and just love Him.

Precious Lord, Jehovah Rapha,
Thank You for this beautiful day.  Thank You for your unending love that guides, heals, prospers and comforts us every day of our lives.  You are our everything and we couldn't make it through without You.
Today Father, we thank You for the healing happening right now in Sadie's body.  We thank You that the healing is so complete that every cancer cell is totally destroyed never to return.  Bless her and her Mom as they travel home safely and help them get their lives back to normal quickly.
Lord, once cancer has invaded our lives, it is hard to take the focus off of it.  Help each of us that has ever been touched by it to be able to completely turn that focus on to You and to honor You daily with taking better care of the body You have given us, the body that was bought and paid for by the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.
We love You Lord.  We love You.  We love You.
In Jesus' precious name we pray.
Amen