God created fruit too!

Oh, how I love fruit.  I thank God for creating fruit.  It is healthy, good and comforting.  Did you realize that fruit was comforting?  Well, it is!  Especially apples. 

Maybe apples are comforting to me because they make me think of Christmas time.  When I was young (long time ago) we only had 2 fruits that we could afford at Christmas; apples and oranges. 

Honestly, I can pick up a orange or apple, close my eyes and smell either of them and they take me back to the days of my childhood when my mother was still living.  My mother died when I was very young, so I enjoy smells that take me back to the days of comfort when my mother was there to "mother" me.  Our sense of smell is connected really well to our memory.

We made a trip to Ellijay, GA today.  Ellijay is the Apple Capital of Georgia, or so they say.  I LOVE going to the apple houses.  I try to stop at everyone of them when we make the trip up to buy apples.  Actually, we only buy apples from a couple of them but still, I enjoy stopping by each one and walking around and smelling the apples, apple pies and apple cakes.  Of course, there is always apple cider to taste test.  And no apple house is worth it's salt if it doesn't have apple butter and apple sauce to be tested as well.

We had a wonderful day.  Enjoyed the beautiful sites of changing leaves that God had on display for us.  The beauty that our eyes beheld only enhanced the trip.

My husband and I had a long conversation on the trip up about the many, many blessings that God heaps on us everyday.  You might think, with the cancer diagnosis we are living with in our lives now that we would not find it easy to see so many blessings.  However, we can even see the cancer as a blessing in a very unusual way.  My husband faith in God has grown from a seed to a huge redwood tree.  Praise God, that is a huge blessing.  My faith has grown stronger. 

Take whatever comes to you in life and turn it into a blessing.  That can be done, we are living proof.

Be blessed and be a blessing to others.

Storms With Rainbows

GOD PUT A RAINBOW IN THE SKY, WHEN IT LOOKED LIKE THE SUN WOULDN'T SHINE ANYMORE, GOD PUT A RAINBOW IN THE SKY

My last post was one of a woman that was in awe of the miracles of my Lord and Savior.  This post is from a woman who is STILL in awe of my Lord and Savior.

The Pathologist as well as the Surgeon felt sure there was cancer in the mass, so he continued to dissect the one lymp node as well as the growth removed from my husband and he FOUND the cancer.  Naturally, when the Surgeon talked with us on Monday I can honestly say that "shock" came no where close to describing how we felt.  I could not wrap my mind around what I was hearing.  I called a dear sweet friend and let her pray me through it.  She talked with me until I could get calmed down and start to look at things objectively.

There was so many blessings in this Rainbow that God put in the middle of my storm.  THEY found this cancer before my husband was sent home from the hospital, had they not found it; I shutter to think of what might have happened in the coming months. 

Surgery for the 2nd time was performed on Tuesday.  They took out 12" more of the colon and all the lymp nodes.  Final reports on Friday revealed that 3 of 38 lymp nodes had cancer and the growth had cancer in it as well.  There is no cancer in the liver nor in the lungs and with the surgery, the cancer is no longer in the colon.  However, he will have to take Chemo to raise his chances of the cancer not re-occuring in the colon from 50% to 80%. 

At the end of the Chemotherapy treatments (6 months) then the Seeds of Radiation will be implanted into the prostate. 

God is so good, all the time He is so good.  He put us in a place at this time in our lives where there are wonderful Doctors, Nurses, Hospital and Cancer Treatment Centers.  How blessed we are.







Moving Mountains

I have read and studied the Bible for quite a number of years, however, I  recently had one of those "aha" moments when a light went off in my head.  YES, I GET IT!! 

In the Bible, God tells us that if we had faith that was strong enough that we could command a mountain to move and it WOULD MOVE......I have faith, I have strong faith but I just never saw a need to move a mountain, after all, where would I tell it to go?? 

I FINALLY got the point He was making, it is not a literal mountain that our faith could move, but, the mountains in our lives.  Just like the mountain that George and I found ourselves standing in front of lately.  That huge mountain of FEAR....guess what???  Our faith in our Lord and Savior along with our prayers and the many, many prayers of friends and family has literally moved that mountain from our lives.  Instead, in front of us now is a peaceful, green valley filled with wild flowers, birds, butterflies and a gentle clean stream.  We met God in that valley and He held us in His hands and gave us the assurance that if we leave that mountain with Him that He will be faithful to keep it out of our lives.  We gave it to Him and now we only face that beautiful garden of peace.

Thank you sweet Jesus for your blessed assurance that anything we might face in this health crisis won't be faced alone, but, we will face it with Your hand in ours.