Prayer: Great God, in life and in death and in resurrection You are with us. Show us today how we can share Your great love. Let us see with our dim eyes who needs to be enfolded in Your care and Your blessings today. Be with us as we take Your Word into our daily lives so that others can see You through our actions. Help us to slow down today so that we pray to You with delight. May we bring joy into our families and keep them and our friends and congregation and community in our prayers of invocation. Holy God, create within us the energy to bring Your healing to this world. This we ask in Your Son’s name. Amen.
Pardon the personal glimpse today but this indeed in a time of celebrating.
In October the surgeons have me a diagnosis of stage 4 colo-rectal cancer. I knew that my body was not well. And me being me began organizing who was going to do my Service of Resurrection. As best I could I began cleaning house and giving away items so my husband and son would not need to do it after I was gone. There were many times of prayer and meditation… especially prayers for husband and son and family so that they would have peace and calmness and understanding of the end of my life. Surgery happened within a week of the diagnosis. The awesome surgeon ended up doing a bowel resection and a hysterectomy to remove a big tumour. We were still thinking it was stage 4 colo-rectal cancer. The pathology report came back within three weeks… and the tumour was endometriosis cells instead of cancer cells. No cancer, no imminent death – resurrection.
I was stunned. My first thoughts were “Thank You God” and “How come”. I am still meditating on the “how come” part…. God has given me extra time to do what… I am still not sure. But it is amazing to get out of bed every day and ask God what we will be doing today so that God’s love is shared this day with others.
During my time of healing there were hiccups. The bowel upon healing was beginning to close up instead of keeping open. So the Surgeon said a flexible sigmoidoscopy was in order. The procedure was requested in December and became a reality yesterday. Yesterday was two hours of processing and waiting for a 10 minute explore. Dr Ahweng, my surgeon, said that I was healing fabulously and there were no signs of the resectioning of bowels nor of hemorrhoids.