Unexpected Turns

I started taking chemo again last Thursday. Yay me! I take five pills every day. So far, I've been more tired than usual and have had a few stomach issues, but nothing major. Keep the prayers going!

If all goes as planned, next Thursday, February 4 will be my last day at school with March 1 being the official retirement date. I know God has another plan for me now, but it's still not easy to leave the best job in the world. I just have to trust and know that His thoughts and ways are so much higher than mine. I can only see from my very limited perspective; in contrast, He already knows how it all ends. He's got this!

Please pray for me and my family as we enter this new phase of our lives. Yes, my children are grown, but they love their mom and it's tough on them too. It's definitely tough on Neal with all that he does for me. Maybe I'll be able to help more now that I hopefully won't be as fatigued.

Pray for my sweet Mama. I still haven't told her. Since her assisted living flooded on Christmas day, she has had to stay in the adjacent nursing home and hasn't felt great herself. I haven't wanted to make her feel worse. She's quite a tough lady, but she also loves her baby. Tuesday was January 26--nine years since my sister Barbara was killed in a car accident; Wednesday was January 27--nine years since Daddy died from the strokes he had a month earlier. I called her Monday and she was quite unhappy as she remembered that anniversary. I just can't bring myself to tell her about my situation yet. God will tell me when it's time.

Life can really take unexpected turns sometimes. The key is, are we ready to face those turns? I can't imagine not having the One Who knows what's around those turns in my life. Revelation 1:8 states, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the LORD, "Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty." He was there when the cancer cells were present in my body but were yet undiscovered; He's been there throughout this entire journey with me; and He'll be there when I take my last breath on this Earth. But that won't be the end. Next, I'll be sitting at His Feet and will forever be in His presence. Oh what a glorious Day that will be! Can you see it? Can you feel it? Oh the joy! In the meantime, I just have to keep remembering these verses.

" 'For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,' declares the Lord. 'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.' " ~ Isaiah 55:8-9

 

God's got this!!