Unfailing mercies.......

Today is the 1 year anniversary of my official cancer diagnosis. Not that we didn't already have a notion because we did. But today marks the day, a year ago, that I sat in the surgeon's office and heard the official pathology report....."You have inflammatory breast cancer."

I am not one who celebrates seemingly inane anniversaries such as "5 months since I met you" or "2 years and three months since we began dating." This date marks something different. This date marks survivorship. This date marks God's grace in allowing me 365 more days on this earth with my family and friends.

So today, I think back over all that has happened in this year. I visited more doctors last year than I did in the total 48 prior years of my life. I learned about a disease that has stricken just about every family I can think of, in one way or another. I laughed; I cried. I prayed, and I stood in awe of a Heavenly Father who held my hand every step of the way (and continues to do so). He has been gracious to me in ways I could never have imagined and probably wouldn't have noticed, if not for the cancer.

I've made many new friends along the way, many of them members of the same club. I appreciate their humor and support. And I thank God for the friends and family that He's given me to help hold me up, like Aaron helped Moses, long ago. What faithfulness!

While I have no guarantee that I will be around to mark this date next year, I am confident that God's plan for me is better than anything I could plan on my own. He has proven that to me over and over this year. In that, I can rest and be grateful for each day more that He gives me.

"It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."~Lamentations 3: 22,23

posted by Kim @ 11:40 AM