This was a few years ago, in Destin FL. My sisters and I and my children were blessed to go on vacation there. My sis' Colleen bought me a boogie board and her and Shawn taught me how to boogie board. It was a good thing and a bad thing, while we were there most of the time the weather stunk and the ocean was really wild! One of the days all the other beaches had 2 red flags up and I forgot what ours had up, but it sure was not 2 red flags. We went in anyway, we were the only ones in the water and we kept saying how "angry" the ocean was acting. It was so POWERFUL! It would practically drag us under when we were in up to our knees. It was so powerful, but it was a lot of fun. We laughted our heads off boogie boarding! I think we all toned up pretty good that week fighting the angry ocean so much. I feel like that now in a way, of course I can't just walk away from this cancer, but I am going to have to fight each and every day to keep being positive, to keep trusting God, and following him. To not be discouraged, but to be still and know that he is God. Jesus had the power to stop the angry ocean over 200o years ago when he was alive on this earth. Illness and sickness were everywhere, and he healed everywhere he went. He still heals to this day, and I have faith that I will live a long cancer free life for him! We are all in this fight together, you are helping me in my fight. Every prayer, every kind word, every smile, hug, letter, e mail, they all are helping me in my fight. I still am so shocked that this is me dealing with this. Sometimes I feel like this is an out of body experience, but when I realize that this is really going on I do have faith and know that there is a greater purpose for me going through this. I believe that nothing happens by accident, there is no "concidiences". God is alive, and well and he is very involved in my day to day life, and he continues to be a blessing! I hope you have a wonderful day, thank you for helping me fight this angry ocean! Hopefully next winter I will be able to go to Flordia again and visit that ocean and laugh and play for a week like we did just a few short years ago. God is good :) All the time :)
2 comments:
Shanda- I am also a member of the "I'm Too Young for Breast Cancer" support group at Gilda's club. Unfortunately I was not able to attend the last meeting (your first meeting) but I hope to see you there in January and the following months. I was diagnosed one year ago at the age of 30. So I'm another young one just like you. I was 5 months pregnant at the time. I have a very healthy 8 month old baby boy now, praise God. I too have a very strong faith in God and I'm looking forward to seeing His plan for me in all this. Hope to meet you at the next meeting. Stay strong and know that many people are thinking about you as you proceed through your chemo treatments.
Thank you Alyson! I can't wait to meet you, Jan. 11th I think is the next ITY meeting :). Have a WONDERFUL Christmas! :) Shanda :)
Post a Comment