Snap To It

(written last year as I had finished 4 surgeries and was not starting the treatment phase)I could feel the excitement growing.  It was just moments before the house would be still with all family members gone.  As they drove off, I instantly had tears in my...

Dress Rehearsal

(more of my story… beginning of radiation treatments)As I slid back the curtain of the dressing room it was immediately apparent that I was the "odd-man-out."  Everyone (okay 4 or so other patients) was sitting with their hospital gowns tied to...

Happy Anniversary

(written on my 25th anniversary June 9, 2009)It was one of the most tender moments of my life.  Literally, a "words cannot describe,"… "time stood still"… kind of moment.  Eddie was standing in the driveway as I pulled up from...

Peace, Peace

(more of my cancer story from spring 2009)I arrived for my first appointment at Stanford Medical Center in a state of awe and disbelief.  How had my case been elevated to the point of needing the counsel of possibly the best doctors anywhere?  It was like...

Arkansas Water Part 3 (of 3)

(…here's my main point…)As I began wrestling with this new discovery, God gave me the most amazing privilege of seeing how He ties everything in our lives together.  Most times we don't get to know, this side of heaven, the tie-in, but by...