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Good Bye and God Bless

It has been some time since I last posted….the reason being that this is my last post. The clinical trial medicine ended up having mixed results…until it was decided by the doctors that it was not effective in treating my myeloma. This was my last option, and I have since moved to home hospice. IContinue reading “Good Bye and God Bless”

Praise God for Good News!

(….after fear, doubt and, finally…faith in prayer!) Last week, as I was writing about the Holy Spirit, I was also struggling. And when I say I was struggling, I mean I was struggling in prayer over my very life – was I going to live or die! As a quick update/overview….I have exhausted my treatmentContinue reading “Praise God for Good News!”

Pentecost: What the Heck is the Holy Spirit?

My last post was an Easter post. Easter is the biggest Christian holiday we celebrate each year – Jesus’s death on the cross, not ending in death, but in life and resurrection! It is the cornerstone of the Christian faith. Following the resurrection, Jesus then was alive with his disciples, teaching them, even appearing toContinue reading “Pentecost: What the Heck is the Holy Spirit?”

Weird Easter

This Easter has been weird. Isolation from church and family is wearing on us all here. We miss people and being out and about! Personally, I am still struggling with recovering from back pain and cancer treatment which is making a difficult situation THAT much more difficult. This has been a hard Easter. While pastContinue reading “Weird Easter”

I Am Irritable! How About You?

Can I just keep it real? This sucks! Obviously, this sucks! Cancer, Covid-19, isolation, pain, stress and anxiety. We are all going through something right now. For me, I am just plain irritable! Being the savvy patient that I am, with tons of time on my hands, I research irritability with all of the sophisticationContinue reading “I Am Irritable! How About You?”

What REALLY Matters

I have been in the hospital for a month, so it goes without saying that it is good to be home! I went into the emergency room sometime in February with uncontrolled pain. It is a terrible part of my disease that healthy bone marrow is being crowded out by cancer cells. In my case,Continue reading “What REALLY Matters”

I Am: the Way, the Truth and the Life

Sometimes Jesus says things so “new” they leave his followers completely confused. Some ideas, even if they are no longer new to us, leave people in disbelief. One such topic is heaven. Another is that Jesus is God. In John 14, Jesus speaks to both topics as he prepares his disciples for his death andContinue reading “I Am: the Way, the Truth and the Life”

One of My Favorite Christmas Songs You Might Not Have Heard

Merry Christmas! Wishing you all many joys and blessings this season and in the year to come.Dana

“I AM”

We frequently use the phrase “I am” to describe ourselves to someone we recently met. In a brief sentence we sum up something that is most important to us or to our identity. We may say, “I am Jake’s mother” or “I am Lizzy’s father”. Or “I am married” or “single”. We may say weContinue reading ““I AM””

Homesick

Friday, September 28, 2018 Is it weird to do an update here? Now? It’s been almost 2 years since my last post. (My mind is going to some movie scene “Father, It’s been 2 years since my last confession.” But I’m not Catholic, so I’ll try to quiet that voice and get on with writing.)Continue reading “Homesick”