Day Nineteen with Cancer

Day Nineteen with Cancer:

It's Sunday!  I've been looking forward to this day all week.  Last Sunday pastor and I discussed having me anointed.  All the family woke up and got ready for church...this included my father.  Jeremy and I drove separately, because we were going to a going away party in the afternoon.  I'm not sure why, but Jeremy didn't realize that dad was coming.  We got there and he was really shocked.  I don't know if shocked was the right word for what I was feeling.  I wasn't really surprised exactly.  I was really thankful.  I just kept praying that God would work in his life and speak to Him through what was going on with me.  I realize it's going to take something big for him to "break", and I think this could be that thing.  I pray it is.

Pastor's message was fantastic.  He had just gotten some unnerving news that could potentially effect his health.  It's amazing and inspiring to see that He continues to trust in God and know that He's taken care of him for all these weeks before he even knew something was wrong.  There's no way God would leave him now.  I guess that's exactly how I felt.  There were so many reasons that I probably should have even found out that I had cancer, but God made a series of events occur in such a way that we ended up looking for something else.  Thankfully, we found the cancer before it got worse.  God is a merciful healer.  I praise Him for all He's done for me throughout this process.

At the end of the service, we got together and anointed me.  I'm going to add the youtube link from that day, because even I haven't seen how God worked that day.  All I know is that there seemed to be an army praying for me.  It was an amazing feeling.  People who barely know me are intervening in prayer. What a blessing.

After church, the family and I went to some new Mexican restaurant in Painesville.  It was really good, but I wasn't very hungry.  It was good to have us all together.  I realized this would be the last time we were all together before my surgery, and even then, we'd be missing a few people.  I love my family so much.  I love that we were able to sit there and make butt jokes and cancer jokes, but still talk about the important things.  Jaden was upset because he didn't get one of the blue bracelets.  I told him he could wear mine since I wouldn't be able to wear it during the surgery.  He had lots of questions.  He tried to play the strong boy, but I knew he was worried.

After dinner, Jeremy and I headed over to Howard's Jewelry to see if they might be willing to donate something for the fundraiser.  We had a nice chat with a few of the women and then kinda ran out of there when we realized what time it was.  It was insanely windy as we went back to the car.  I was getting ready to pull a Mary Poppins.  It was some crazy stuff.

We drove to Cassidy to see Mike and Trin off.  I'm really going to miss them.  They're such a wonderful couple and total assets to the local theatre scene.  I was also able to see some other theatre people I haven't seen in a while.  That was really nice.  Having to take a break from everything lately has been KILLING me...at least this way I was still able to hang out with some of the people I love so much from the theatre.  It was really amusing to see all the kids trying to dance.  How awesome to be little and have NO inhibitions.  They were just having the best time.  After that, we met up with most of them at the Blue Moose.  We didn't stay too long, but they had us laughing the entire time.

Jeremy and I left to look for a place to have a "real" dinner, and ended up at Applebees.  I don't know if you'd call that a real dinner or not, but my salad was delicious.  We tried not to stay out too late, so that I could make sure I was still going to get home in one piece.  I ended up being very tired on the way home, but I made it alright.  Michael sent me a text to thank us for coming and seeing them off.  I'm going to miss those guys.

I've decided to add the links for the service as well as my song and verse for the day.  Hope you get as much out of it as I did!

(Part one)  http://www.youtube.com/user/PainesvilleNaz#p/a/u/0/bz1NCLN9B-M
(Part two)  http://www.youtube.com/user/PainesvilleNaz#p/a/u/1/xn94Y6olUvU
(Part three) http://www.youtube.com/user/PainesvilleNaz#p/a/u/2/w9xfHSn4rG4
(Part four) http://www.youtube.com/user/PainesvilleNaz#p/u/3/9w_r0kAFEi4

Song of the Day: Manifesto  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_6JQDsbtlM

Verse of the Day: 1 Corinthians 15:57
But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.