My son used to play a song by Reliant K that went like this:
Sunny with a high of 75
Since You took my heavy heart and made it light.
And it’s funny how you find
You enjoy your life
When you’re happy to be alive.
I haven’t heard that song in quite a while ~ and I didn’t
think of it at all during this
longest-of-all-winters that we’ve just come through in Canada! But the last few
days those words have been running through my head. Yes, even today . . . ’though
we received an inch of fresh snow on our just-cleared lawns!
I can’t forget that a year ago today I started chemotherapy.
I was so scared. Had I made the right
decision about treatment? What side effects would I face? What if the “cure”
was worse than the cancer? Would I get sick? What if I took the wrong dose of
steroids at the wrong time? And on and on . . .
God sent me a special friend that day ~ a wonderful nurse
who literally linked her arm through mine and ministered to me along every step
of the way . . . from patiently pushing the drugs intravenously to covering
me with a warm blanket to bringing me a cold pack when a sudden headache set
in. When I told her how scared I was, she looked me in the eye and asked, “Do
you believe in God?” I said, “Yes,” and she replied, “Then that’s all that
matters. Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray.”
She was such a blessing to me. I hoped that she’d be there
for the next five rounds of chemo. She was; and I still stop in to visit the
chemo clinic whenever I get the chance. Who dreamed I’d actually look forward
to going there!
