When my husband and I first got married, we prayed every night for mentors. We didn’t have many deep relationships at all when we first got married, as we hadn’t lived in the area for very long before we tied the knot, so we certainly didn’t have any healthy relationships with older married couples. We longed for that. We were young—still in college—and wanted to start our marriage off strong, with an older man and woman to guide us along the way. A good prayer, right?
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From an article originally posted October 17, 2013…
Simple title. I’m awake late at night with a desire to tell my new readers about me. I want to tell about the me that has nothing to do with cancer. Dear reader, I want to tell you a few snippets of me apart from the battle I’m facing.
Answered by Jill Buteyn
How do we live out long-term suffering with others in a society that has a hard time with long-term anything? There are many of us who aren’t going to get well. We get the I just know that Jesus is going to heal you, and Just pray and you will be fine, or Have you tried this latest thing—I’m sure it will help you. But what we need is just love and community to do life with?
From an article originally posted October 16, 2013…
Isn’t that a song title or a band? Whatever it is, it describes me well. I am learning that the challenge of the rest of my life will be to combat fear with truth. I know several things about my cancer after yesterday: some I knew, some I didn’t. My cancer is aggressive, my cancer is sneaky, it is present, but not accounted for in my body. It is simple to treat, and it is very difficult to treat. I fessed up about headaches, and I won a brain MRI. I don’t want to write that they are checking for brain cancer. That would just be too scary to write.
