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 |   My journey through (and beyond) the valley with Cancer as my companion. |
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Dear Friend: This is not a Blog about writing! (I already have one of those.) This is a blog about a journey I am taking with illness. I have recently been diagnosed with Cancer. My goal is honest therapy as I progress through, and beyond this new reality in my life. I hope that, somewhere along the way you will find some words that will help you too. While this is, in fact, an interactive Blog, I hope that you will scroll slowly down this page. For you see, the front of this Blog IS my journey. The entries are conversations that are held along the journey.Yes, there is a lot on it--before actually getting to the Blog entries. But, I hope that by the objects and words which appear before the Blog itself, you might come to understand just a little bit about me, and my journey, and some truly amazing friends who have agreed to journey with me. I hope that you, too, will choose to accompany me on my walk--through the Valley. I invite you to join me, and discover the wondrous truths, meet some truly amazing people, and share those "memorable" moments this journey will undoubtedly present. Come along, won't you? In His Care, ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Would you like to help me help others? I found this amazing organization, and I am proud to be a sponsor. I hope you will check it out. It's called The Network For Good.  ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "RISUS OMNIA - INCRUMENTUS PER DEDECUS - SAPIENTIA PER DAMNUM" ("Every thing is funny - Growth through humiliation - Wisdom through loss") ~Leunig~ The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. ~Helen Keller~ "If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." ~Virginia Woolf~ ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "There is strength in truth." ~The Barton Family Crest~ ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller, American social activist, public speaker and author (1880-1968) I have moved the list of my thanks for those who have helped to make this little Blog so very special. I hope that you will take a moment to read the list, growing every day, and let these fellow travellers along this journey know that you appreciate the contributions they make to our walk together.
** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything." James 1:2-4 ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Please feel free to click on the Blog Rings icon below to be transported to some of the very best of the Best Bloggers around WDC. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** If you are new to WDC, or to our Blogging community, I highly recommend the monthly edition of "The Blogville News". Feel free to click below, and let Scarlett   know that a Blogger sent ya!Hey! We've started a Christian's Blog Ring on WDC. Click on the logo, and join us! ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Budroe
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| For bloggers especially, and writers generally, the first of anything is a landmark. Birthday over (officially the gayla festivities last through this coming Sunday because...well, just because they can. January 1 sees new diaries, calendars, journals, plans and dreams in their gestational periods. So are resolutions. I stopped making resolutions long ago. Instead I choose destinations and the journeys to lead me toward them. Sometimes I get there. Sometimes I don't, but rarely have I ever regretted the deviations I have made, for they have led to even better destinations, and new sights along the way. Yes, my destination this 2018 is a blog of blue. There is much to do, and I have committed to several projects this year that should make that destination at least possible...IF I choose to record the journey here. My wish for my friends along this journey is for a safe, well and happy 2018. I wish you the best health you can have. I wish for you the family and friends to sustain you on your journey, as you continually sustain me on mine. We have ushered many friends home this year as they have completed their journey through, and gathered beyond the valley. They have won their battles, and completed their journey well. They now rest safely on the other side. They await us there. When we feel the loss of a life lived well, it is a life worthy of celebration in our every wish, thought and dream. They have run the race, and we have run it with and (in some steps) for them. Yay, them! And, yes. Yay, us too. We do not turn our backs on them and relegate their memories to the rubbish heap. We gather them into our hearts, and take them each step of the journey we have remaining. We do that to give, hopefully, those memories to the loved ones when next we meet. We must do our very best to insure they are good memories. And we must live our lives, and take our steps worthy of those memories. We can do that, together. I pray we will in 2018. It is going to be, in many ways, a very difficult year along this journey. Many things will, I fear, happen even a bit faster than the speed of life. We must keep each other close, and protect the weak along the journey. It is not just our obligation, but our privilege. Step one is taken. May my journey, and yours, always remain, In His Care, Budroe |
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