Here Comes the Rain!

I woke early this morning just in time to see the sunrise, and shortly thereafter, the clouds and wind rushed in again. My feelings and the weather of the day often coincide...or maybe I just think they do. But it made me pull out a book that I received when Gene died, (Healing After Loss, Daily Meditation for Working Through Grief) and I thought I'd share with you the reading for May 5.

"We are never promised freedom from flood and fire, from any kind of disaster, or freedom from death. What God is promising here is that we do not walk through these terrors alone and that, difficult as they are, they will not destroy us.
But we have to act to take advantage of this promise.
Can we reach out our hand into the darkness, believing there is One there to sustain us, to help us thorough this terrible time? There is a saying that for every halting step we take toward God, God walks a thousand miles in blazing light to come to us."

Thus the Sonshine bringing us Blessings.

I know that for Judy and family these next few days will be hard, but they will get through it and God will be there carrying them. The sun will come out again and slowly but surely the tears will flow less often and they will remember the Good Times.

My day yesterday was spent at the HHH Cancer Center, getting my sixth round of chemo hooked up, and my friend Rita, took me. It just so happens that she also went to school with June and Judy at Immaculate Heart of Mary grade school, so we spent a lot of time talking about Frank and all that he has gone through in the last 14 years, as it started long before he got that transplant 10 years ago. So it was a bittersweet day. My doctor again reinforced my remarkable CT scan and that he would be scheduling a PET scan next month, and they most likely will be sending me back to Mayo for the surgery they couldn't do in January due to the spots in my lungs. So I had that nice report just a few hours before Janet calling me with the news that at 1:40 Frank had passed.
I spent the afternoon trying to communicate to all my relatives the sad news. I look forward to being with the family this evening and tomorrow as we wake and bury Frank and continue to celebrate this great, gentle, loving man. Love and prayers, m