The Ides of March

Happy Friday!

This morning I was preparing myself for bad news.  Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. If they found, on the scans I had done yesterday, that the cancer had spread to my bones or my organs I would have been in a big pickle.

But IT HASN’T!

The word is the CT was normal and the bone scan was normal!  Such good news!   Praise the Lord!  The biopsy was positive, but I was ready for that.  This really is the best news I could have at this point.

Mike and I will meet with the doc early Monday morning to discuss the next steps.  I don’t have any idea, right now, when the next steps will happen.  But Sunday I get to spend time singing praises to my Savior who knows the number of hairs on my head and the condition of each cell in my body.  And He has a plan for me, better than any I could imagine.

Psalms 34:4 says:

I sought the Lord and he answered me, He delivered me from all my fears.

When I was a program specialist at Ashgrove Adventure Girl Scout Camp for a few years in Fairfax, Virginia, my camp name was “Sparrow”.  I chose that name because of the song that goes,

Why should I feel discouraged,
Why should the shadows come,
Why should my heart be lonely
And long for Heav'n and home?
When Jesus is my portion,
My constant Friend is He:
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He cares for me;
His eye is on the sparrow

And I know He watches me.

Refrain:
I sing because I'm happy,

I sing because I'm free,

For His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.

"Let not your heart be troubled,"
His tender word I hear,
And resting on His goodness,
I lose my doubts and fear;
Though by the path He leads me
But one step I may see:
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.

Whenever I am tempted,
Whenever clouds arise,
When songs give place to sighing,
When hope within me dies,
I draw the closer to Him,
From care He sets me free:
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He cares for me;
His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.

 

Thank you, my friends and family, for your continued prayer and support.  Your verses are going up all around me and I look forward to how the Lord will use me, and work in my life in the next few weeks.  I don’t for a moment think it will be easy, nor pleasant, but I pray daily for the strength and peace to not try to figure it all out, but to trust that He will strengthen and help me.

Good night.