I can't even take care of myself, but I'm having to step up and be there for Julie. It's kind of on-the-job training. I've had my head in the sand for a long time and have known next to nothing about cancer. But we have been meeting a great bunch of folks, both medical staff and patients, who are sharing openly from their hearts and experience the hard realities of this creepy disease and the surprising upsides of this journey. Sometimes we get sensory overload with books, questions, pamphlets, Internet, suggestions, e-mails, text messages, phone calls & visits. But it's all good. Julie says that visiting with friends and family just pump her up.
I copped an attitude last week (because I think cancer sucks) and I was pouting around the guys I work with. They were patient enough to let me blow off some steam and bawl my eyes out. I use to think when David wrote the Psalms that he was a bit of a whiner. But now when I read those passages I see them through a new set of eyeballs.
I'm reading a book called "What Cancer Cannot Do." Cancer is so limited...It cannot cripple love, shatter hope, corrode faith, kill friendship, suppress memories, silence courage, invade the soul, steal eternal life or conquer the spirit.
Thanks for praying! God is answering.
Julie and Greg
"Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength: they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary."
Isaiah 40:31
Isaiah 40:31
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I just wanted to let you know that my husband and I are praying for your whole family. Julie was my choir teacher at Canfield middle school about 16 years ago. Greg came over to my parents house and counceled us when I got pregnant. You two have really touched my life! We also attened CdA bible together many years ago, and attended school with Jake and Betsy. ANYWAY, your family has been such a blessing to us and we are saddened by the news. BUT, we are praying our little hearts out and asking our fellow Christians to pray as well. ((HUGS))
Erica & Benjamin Kovacs
Pat & Carol Rogers daughter and son-in-law
I shared the quote from "What cancer cannot do" with my Uncle who also has lung cancer. Something I never thought aobut but very powerful.
Lorie Weiss
Hi Julie! I'm so glad you are choosing to include all of us in your daily goings-on. :) It helps me to know specifically how to pray. I learned that my Shelby came to see you on Saturday. She enjoyed her visit. She told me "I know exactly who Mrs. Johnson is. She teaches at Fernan. I have seen her at music festivals." She was glad to see you and talked about how blessed SHE was to have spent time with you and Greg.
Love to you sweetheart. God is bigger than we can imagine!
"Now all glory to God, who is able through his mighty power
at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think." Ephesians 3:20
Love you! Dena Hankins
What a nice letter, Dad. It's great that you let yourself pout and be angry and sad and human, with a resolve to concentrate on what this (stupid) cancer can't do. I love you so much!!
Love, Betsy
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