I am up to my ears with this book....one week to my dead line...thank God! I promise when I'm done I am jumping back into the blogging world...
I just got off of the phone with my mom....She was updating me on her life...let me fill you in...it is a story worth hearing.
For the last twenty something years she has had a terminal form of Cancer. In the last five years the doctor told her she was fast approaching a time when treatment was going to be ineffective. She took her health care in her own hands. She found a clinical trial at MD Anderson. She is now in remission for the first time in 20 years...the doctors think that this research is going to lead to a cure. Amazing! More recently she had a pacemaker put in to regulate her heart beat and ultimately her blood pressure which often hovered around the point of a major stroke due to her blood disorder. Her heart and blood pressure has now radically changed for the positive.
Today she told me she is going back to work. She retired ten years ago after teaching art in the public school. Now she is going back! She loves kids and art and sees it as her calling. She is past retirement age and she doesn't need the money, but she is going back.
It was the forth quarter with seconds to go...with a miracle play she has pushed the game into overtime. She is well on her way to an upset. She she is one of my hero's in life. I told her that today. Regardless of what life brings her in the future. Regardless of what happens with her disease, she wins!
We too, can win. Church planting is tough...but in Jesus we win!
That is incredible and awesome!! Great to hear too that your son is ok after the attack!! Added to my prayer list...
Posted by: Rindy | August 17, 2007 at 09:09 AM