Good morning…
“You asked me this morning what did I remember most about my cancer journey,” she emailed me yesterday.
“Through all the pain, anguish, and unknowing answers with cancer, this cruel disease has many benefits,” she explained. “It was probably, no it was, my closest time with God. I could not have visitors. I could not go anywhere. I had no agenda. I just prioritized my time with God. I read the Bible daily. I read my devotional daily. I communed with God’s world. I earnestly prayed. All without the busyness of life. I relished my time with my family, just seeing their faces and hearing their voices brought me joy. And friends! How humbled I was to have so many people care for me. It wasn’t the big things in life, it was the ordinary days that brought peace to my life and helped me to heal.”
“Almost 20 years later, I don’t look back at that time as horrible,” she concluded. “I sometimes even long for that peace and unscheduled time, to be with God and to slow down. So, Sue, thank you for asking that question and making me look back and long for those Godly days. Now it is up to me to find those days again.”
I think of Betty Skinner’s wisdom shared in yesterday’s post: “Retrospect is such a beautiful view.”
I prayed diligently for my friend twenty years ago, as she journeyed with cancer. Now, I think she would agree with Betty. “Retrospect is such a beautiful view.”
…Sue…
