“A SPECIAL GIFT”
“Welcome back!” it has been a while. Hope each of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are about to shift gears for, Christmas Season.
I finished my 7th round of chemotherapy about a week ago and am feeling a little better the last few days. Chemo continues to be a struggle for me. I have to believe it is giving me more life but it also gives me many days I do not feel very good. I have 5 more rounds to get through. Go back in for my two month check up on, December 9th. Those are important and also a little nerve racking.
I did have a birthday on November 8th. It was very special for many reasons. Hitting 58 was nice. With my health stuff the last year, I was never very confident about making it to 58. I made it and who knows maybe I make it to 59. The reality is none of us truly know haw many birthdays we will hit. I think that idea makes it important to live each day like it matters. Most days I do that pretty well. Some days it is a struggle to remember I am very fortunate and blessed for each day of life. The reality is that was true long before I was diagnosed with cancer.
All of my children, their spouses and grandchildren were here the weekend of my birthday. I was very grateful for that and truly enjoyed having them here. I had walked down to check the mail and when I came back into the house everyone was in the living room, sitting around the tv and asked me to sit down. I initially thought that was a little odd, but sat down and they started a video on the TV. WOW!
My daughter in law, Kimberly is a very talented young women. The family had sent her many different pictures and someone shared some video from my time at Hope when I was leading our ministry remotely. Each week I would video a short lesson for our big group time we always had on Monday nights. To be honest, using that to start the video started my tears. By the end the tears were running in a very special way.
I have always loved my wife and children in very special ways. I don’t need gifts like this video to validate my love for them. Since being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor things like this video remind me again how blessed I have been and continue to be with an amazing family.
I wanted to share this video with my bigger family and friends. It is very, very special to me!!
You can watch it HERE
Remember “You are “LOVED” and of “GREAT VALUE!!!”