Cancer Sucks

Got my new T-shirt today from Choose Hope.   Its the Sport Grey...just like the top one in the picture. 

My beautiful 3rd cousin,Laura, who is young (early 40's)  vibrant ,cheerful, joyful, sweeter than a lump of sugar and for all accounts very healthy....  is a survivor of  3rd stage Colon cancer. To any of our knowledge, its not ever struck our family.  She didn't fit the 'profile' for being at risk at all.  The fight was brutal. It began May 27, 2009.  You can read her entire fight from the day she heard the news to this present day on her blog here.   

Her testimony through it all, testifies to the way God held her, the moments His presence became more than just known but a very real Presence, His constant reminders to her that He is near ... everything will be okay... she blogs about the reality of the disease and what it does to your body...what chemo and radiation do. Since I began reading her daily journal I was introduced to many people she came across or knew who were fighting cancer.  Its such an ugly invader in ones world.  Her first post is titled "Life Interrupted' which is very appropriate.  Today, she is tying up the loose ends that come with it but, she is cancer free and ready to live life again.  

 

“’Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,’ says the Lord, who has compassion on you.”

Isaiah 54:10