Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed bringing in the new year. Considering we were in bed by 9:30, I suppose we did! I just cannot stay up until midnight anymore.
Yesterday we spent a nice day over in Bloomington at my brother Tony's house with his wife Beth and family and friends.
Today we are having a stay in jam-jam day. It is nice not to have to do anything in particular.
My parents passed on a book they read called,"The Shack." I started reading it and got to a point where I thought it was getting too deep and thought I would get confused about what was going on. I read on and found an interesting part of the book that really I connected with. I won't go into details, but at one point, the main character is told that we humans are the ones who decided what is good and evil in our lives. I thought about my cancer. Some people would consider this evil. I call the things in my life that could be considered evil to some, blessings in disguise. If I had not gotten that kidney stone, they would not have found my cancer. And who really knows how long I have had it?
My kidney stone was a blessing in disguise and so is my cancer. Some days it is hard not to think about what will happen if I am not strong enough to get through it. But then I think that God gave this kidney stone (a.k.a Blessing in disguise) to let me know about the cancer and that he knows I am strong and will overcome it.
Many, many blessings for your new year!