[Faith-talk] Good Night Message for Sunday, February 24, 2013

[Debbie]

My mom had to deal with breast cancer at age 78, but is now doing fine for 
the most part;  she'll be 81 in early April.

Such an inspiring story;  keep up the good finds!

Debbie Human
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul" <oilofgladness47 at gmail.com>
To: <angelsongs at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 8:51 PM
Subject: [Faith-talk] Good Night Message for Sunday, February 24, 2013


> Hello and good day to you all, whether that be morning, afternoon or, here 
> in the Americas at least, evening.  I hope that your day went well or is 
> going well, by God's matchless grace and His providential care.
>
> For those of you who are married and have or have had children, or if you 
> just like to be around boys and girls as I do, the following article will 
> be of interest to you.  Entitled "I Will Pray For You, Mommy," by Patty 
> Metzer, it is rendered as follows:
>
> "Mommy doesn't feel good today."
>
> I quickly lost track of how many times my children heard that.  It started 
> after surgery for what I learned, at age 26, was breast cancer.  Although 
> I was determined not to let my condition change our family life, this was 
> a promise impossible to keep.
>
> When I began six months of chemotherapy treatments less than three weeks 
> after surgery, I came home feeling miserable and sorry for myself.  My 
> body had betrayed me by getting cancer.
>
> Getting out, just to church, was exhausting.  And my hair, instead of 
> being inches past my shoulders in long thick waves, now was barely 2 
> inches long in preparation for my becoming completely bald.
>
> Our children were 7, 4 and 18 months--too young to understand why Mommy 
> was sick.  I was grateful they weren't old enough to know the depth of my 
> pain, but their tender spirits knew _something was different.
>
> Daddy looked so sad sometimes.  They ate more sandwiches and hot dogs than 
> usual, and their beds didn't always get made.
>
> There were cards and flowers all over the house, Grandma came and even 
> stayed overnight, and boy, did people bring lots of Cookies!
>
> Getting used to changes.
>
> Our 7-year-old son cried at first when his daddy told him I had cancer. 
> Jenny, our 4-year-old, showed amazing compassion:  daily giving my hand an 
> extra squeeze, patting me on the shoulder in childlike concern, and 
> pulling the blankets more closely about me before "reading" to me.
>
> And for my baby, Katlyn, the cuddler, who loved to crawl up into my lap, 
> it wasn't the same.  When I finally healed enough for her to rest against 
> my chest, Mommy felt different.  My heart when Katlyn left quickly because 
> she couldn't get comfortable.  It was shattering to think cancer could rob 
> me of a simple hug from my little girl.
>
> Then, the day I began chemotherapy, my son, Adam, made a card in his 
> first-grade class--to make me "feel better."
>
> Adam is legally blind, and printing was absolutely _the hardest subject 
> for him in school.  Yet he painstakingly pencilled:
>
> Dear Mom,
>
> I hope you get better soon.  It doesn't matter if you are bald to me 
> because I love you.  You being here is what matters.  If you don't feel 
> good somedays I will make supper and read to Jenny and Katlyn.  I will 
> study hard in school so I can learn more words.  I will pray for you every 
> night before I fall to sleep.
> Love, Adam
>
> What a life! Yes, _life.
>
> Cancer was changing our family--for the better.
>
> Though struggling with thinking I wasn't being a good mom, I learn that 
> God _does work in a difficult situation, perhaps more fully than if it had 
> not come.
>
> Was wondering if anyone here knows Adam Metzer? He probably would be 
> around nine or ten years old by this time.
>
> And now may the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob just keep us safe, 
> individually and collectively, throughout this night or day and especially 
> in these last days in which we live.  And, for us in the Americas, why 
> don't we all get together and, when it's our turn to climb into bed, the 
> rest of us can virtually "tuck" him/her beneath the sheets and blankets. 
> Does that sound good to you? It sure does me.  Your Christian friend and 
> brother, Paul
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