Tuesday, November 30, 2010
We have received many encouraging emails and notes, and I have been printing them and reading them to Mom. She has been a wonderful witness and a discipler of many, and that brings my heart great comfort during this time.
We ask for your continued prayers in these remaining days.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Letting Go and Letting God
Monday, November 22, 2010
Cancer is so limited
It cannot shatter HOPE
It cannot corrode FAITH
It cannot destroy CONFIDENCE
It cannot kill FRIENDSHIP
It cannot shut out MEMORIES
It cannot silence COURAGE
It cannot invade the SOUL
It cannot destroy PEACE
It cannot quench the SPIRIT
It cannot lessen the POWER of the RESURRECTION
IT CANNOT STEAL ETERNAL LIFE!
(http:www.godswork.org/enpoem173.htm)
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Roll Call and Prayer Request
Also will you be praying specifically for my mom's medicine? She has been in a lot of pain lately and has had certain reactions to different medicines. Therefore, the hospice nurses and doctors have been changing up her meds a bunch. So we are praying for her to be getting a proper dose of the right medicine, so she can feel okay. Thanks.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Dear Friends and Family,
Thank you so much for your continued prayer for myself and my family. Lamentations 3:22-23 says, “The Lord’s loving kindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning, great is Thy faithfulness”. In our bedroom I have a plant that has been covered with little white flowers until recently when many of them have died off. Today while I pulled off the dead flowers, I noticed there was a refreshing desert-like fragrance released from them. This reminded me of John 12:24, “Unless a grain of wheat dies, it remains alone but when it dies it bears much fruit.”
It has been nine weeks now since my terminal diagnosis of cancer was given. The last few months there has been a blessed time in God’s presence to reflect and rest in the love of family and friends. Physically I feel my outer body is deteriorating, death is the only way we ultimately get to be with our Father, emotionally, there are good and bad days as I am still human but most importantly spiritually I am doing so well. It is only though our inner spirit that we can truly worship the Father and within His Holy Spirit we soar. His mercies are new every morning, great is His faithfulness as I rest in the shadow of His wings, yes I am well.
Yesterday in two different readings God reminded me of His hope through II Corinthians 4: 7-10, “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed, perplexed, but not despairing, persecuted, but not forsaken, struck down, but not destroyed, always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.” What this scripture says to me is that no matter the situation life has handed us, God can use each remaining day to display His power in us and to proclaim Christ’s victory over death to our world. This I am seeking each day in God’s strength.
In His Love,
Cyndi
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Grammy meets little Cub
Profile of face and bodyFoot and full bladder (dark circle shape near stomach)Baby's fist held up to his/her mouth
Friday, November 12, 2010
A Dream
"Then their offspring will be known among the nations, and their descendants in the midst of the people. All who see them will recognize them because they are the offspring whom the Lord has blessed." Isaiah 61:9
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Flowers in the Desert
"He has made everything beautiful in His time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end." Ecclesiastes 3:11
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
So Much to be Thankful for
Monday, November 8, 2010
For Cyndi
Monday, November 1, 2010
"Teach me to number my days
And count every moment before it slips away
Taking all the colors before they fade to gray
I don't want to miss even just a second more of this..."
We are certainly reminded that our days are numbered.