Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

I had a very heart wrenching conversation with a very sick Aunt the otherday. She is my god mother actually. We converse by phone when she feels up to it. My aunty has been struggling with lung cancer that has spread. She is tough and is a fighter. She has had one set back after another and the treatment is getting too much for her to handle. She is sick and tired and very angry with life.

Yesterday, I was so happy that she called me because she and I were able to talk about everything in her heart surrounding her illness and in her feeling towards what she felt her illness was doing to her family. Every word she uttered I got, just as every response that I gave she understood. She was suddenly not alone in this crisis.

She like I have said has been suffering from a terminal cancer and has held her chin up to Heaven with constant prayer.

I said you know Aunty, its okay if you are tired, it is okay to continue treatment or not to continue treatment.

You need to pray to God and get peace about this. Sometimes quality of life is more important that quantity. If you are this terribly sick from this new drug treatment then maybe you need to decide if it is worth it.

You see these are very real life circumstances that I too may need to face at some date.

I reassured her that she will know, a peace will come to her surrounding any decision around this matter that she makes. God is with her

God’s got her and us all.

So, Please keep my Aunty J in your prayers.

Remember life can be lived like a tragedy or it can be lived with the assurance that God’s got it and it will be beautiful depite the circumstance.

If God’s got a loving word for another that is stuck on your lips you need to let that love message out. Unleash Love to everyone !   Amen !

I know that my Aunt would love this song. It is from our family vacations at the beach in NH

Lean On Me by Bill Withers with Lyrics

God Bless You All!

Danny

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