Our Journey - "Endure and Let Your Light Shine": Medical Update

September 2, 2010

Medical Update – Back Into the Battle

To catch you all up on what’s going on, I have once again begun chemotherapy with a schedule that includes fourteen infusions over a 21-week period. This involves two weeks on chemo, one week off chemo, repeated seven times. We had a set back after only the first infusion when my blood chemistry went wacky. We had to delay the second infusion of the first round by two weeks. This really distressed me since I am anxious to battle those cancer cells into oblivion.

WE ARE BACK INTO THE BATTLE. My blood work is back to something that resembles normal so I was able to take that delayed second infusion this morning! God is Great. God is Good.

Plans are to start the second round the week after next. Hopefully my system will be healthy enough to continue.

Psalm 91 -- For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence; he will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

Dear Lord, thank you for restoring my blood counts such that I can continue with the life saving drugs You have provided my physician. Thank you for your mercy and the life you continue to provide me.

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Jack n PatSeptember 3, 2010 at 10:41 PM
in thiss cornerrrrrrrrrr Paully Baalboaaaaaa!
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Endure and Let Your Light Shine

1 Corinthians 10:13 -- No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.

Hebrews 10:36 -- For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Proverbs 13:9 -- The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

Matthew 5:14-16 -- let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Matthew 10:32-33 -- ‘Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven; but whoever denies me before others, I also will deny before my Father in heaven.”

The Great Commission

After Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection He returned in the flesh one last time to His apostles and instructed them in the Great Commission. These are Christ’s last words of instruction to us, as recorded by Matthew, before his final ascension to the spirit world.

Matthew 28:18-20 -- And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’*

Padre Pio

The Way to Heaven
What does it matter to you whether Jesus wishes to guide you to Heaven by way of the desert or by the fields, so long as you get there by one way or the other? Put away any excessive worrying which results from the trials by which the good God has desired to test you; and if this is not possible, resign yourself to the Divine will.

Make Yourself at Home
It is just as well to make yourself at home with the sufferings that Jesus is pleased to send you as you must always live with them. In this way, when you are least expecting to be liberated from them, Jesus, who cannot bear to keep you long in affliction, will come and relieve you and comfort you, giving you new courage.