12-28-2015

In every new day rejoice,  Worship his holy name. 

 

I have written so much over the past year. My topics are pretty basic although the subject matter that is written is not. As I am writing tonight the Hallmark channel is on and my wife is in and out of the room half watching. The puppy wants to be played with and was just placed back in her crate. So cute, she loves her mother 😀

The kitchen that was immaculate is now not so immaculate. My youngest daughter has her good friends in for a little Yankee swap tonight. They made their recipes and moved on to the living room. Where they are knitting, there is contemporary christian music playing and someone is playing a  harmonica .

Life is good. I am personally struggling with a massive energy drain of my body. I know it is not cancers return because I was told that should the brain cancer return that I would lose mobility very quickly. That has not happened. Praise God.

My doctors prescribed a medicine that may jump start the body. I got it and as I began to use it, a sense of unease set in and I prayed on it. I read everything that I could and did not like the possible side effects associated with its use.  I stopped using it because God did not give me peace about using it rather I got peace in not using it.

We need to do our due diligence in any big decision that we need to make in our lives.

I think that my exhaustion is due to fact that I have stepped up my daily activity. I have been very aggressive (for me).The activity combined with the Christmas Season and all of the fun things that it involves with it has left my body with the need to catch up.

The other thing that is definitely an energy drain is that a very dear friend passed away last week and was buried this week. I had been back and forth to see him at the hospice center.

Paul was a treasure. He had so much faith and showed us all the way of the cross and left this world peacefully and joking with everyone. He is now free from the bondage of the life and is healed.

His family is wonderful and they too are strong in their faith.

The big but is this…

His family is missing him so much. He was so young. We as friends even with our faith are grieving his loss so I think that this loss is effecting my energy whereas I have been emotional over his loss and want to be there for his family.

2015 for me personally has been a good year whereas I have thus far outrun my terminal brain cancer diagnosis. But, in other ways it has been a very human year of worries ranging from the everday stuff to  friends that were lost to their illnesses and friends that I continue to support in their battles.

So, like you all, life is a little bitter sweet. The bottom line is this. I know the only reason why I am where I am, alive in this moment is because of God and my faith that he has us all no matter what.

My friend Paul was such a wonderful witness to everyone and that’s the model that I want to show this world as well. Victory over this life, Victory through God.

We need to remember these  truths , we are all connected. We are all from one creator. We all will live and we all will love. Life is not easy but live is always beautiful from our first breath to our last. Finally, we know that someday God will call us back to himself.

We are born out of love, given love by our God. That life love  is to be shared and lavished on everyone regardless of how they treat us. When love hurts us  then  we need to give that to God and he will  restore us.  When we are weakened  in our bodies or our psychological health suffers we need to continue to  love eachother and give the suffering that we are experiencing back  to God and he will send us love back through others and by his healing grace.

Trust in him who gave us life and thank him everyday for his goodness to us all.Amen.

 

God Bless You,

Danny

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