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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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Well, you know how it goes. I've got the idea, the concept, the view of an expected outcome. The box is built. Now to put the "stuff" into the box. *Crickets* Where did it all go? Working on creating the product is taking just a ton of time. I have the time, at least deadline-wise. I determine (most of) that. If Dad says "Go!", I will. This part of an "adventure" is the toughest, but the very best. It's Dad and I, walking together on a journey that will become an activity for His kids. Most will not know (but now will know) that, before presenting such an activity, long before I write it--I must first live it. I am inevitably the first participant in any journey that WDC members will see. When I tell you that an activity is going to be "tough", I generally know my audience well enough to be able to say this with a tad bit of authority. I, long ago, gave up trying to determine whether or not an activity, an adventure, or an encounter was "too tough" or "too hard" or "too..." anything!These don't come about by fancy, whim or chance friend. These writings are a reflection, a history of a part of my faith story. The reason you ever see, or participate in them is because of what I personally have experienced. You get to see the good parts, and occasionally you get to experience a few of the tough parts. But an adventure, or an encounter activity is usually a reduction of a much larger story. Every day of an adventure or encounter has multiple possible forking points. I must have the authenticity to allow each participant to experience what it is they need. Some of those points come from choices I have made on that same journey. I usually know where most of the forks will exist within the activity. Sometimes, I don't. Dad is by my side every step, or it is a step not taken. That gets to be a difficult reality sometimes. I do get a keen sense of when it is time to be still on these journeys through faith. I try to "institutionalize" them into the activity without institutionalizing the entire activity. That's where the writing "fun" comes in! Sometimes, I expect a certain reaction, result, or outcome at some definable point within an activity. Sometimes, that is an amazingly stupid thing to do. When a participant is compelled to be still at a point I hadn't programmed, there are two confirmations I get: 1. They truly ARE on the journey, working diligently, and 2. They are not alone. Dad is with them, and they are in relationship at that moment. Not only do I get confirmation that authenticity and legitimacy exist as a part of the work of the author of the activity (not me, I'm just the typist), but I get confirmation that it (the activity or part thereof) is being done as instructed. I just have to breathe deep at these first points, and be still. He will, in HIS time, instruct me. And He does. He comes to me. That is how I know that I know that you, too, can have just such a moment. The activities of the adventures and encounters are life-changing, authentically His, and yours. That is what this new "Encounter With Christ" is all about. That's when I have my own personal encounter with Christ. The excitement, joy and determination I have compel me to continue, In His Care, Budroe |
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