Hey friends, we are relaxing and enjoying ourselves in a hotel for a couple of days while our kids spend time with relatives. We feel like royalty as we "receive" visitors at our hotel room! One of my favourite things to see is Ramsy making his way around the room out of the wheelchair- hanging on to the walls and beds, surely, but on his own two feet instead of on wheels. His strength is still pretty minimal, but it has improved in the last couple of days.
Looking ahead a couple of days, he will be starting his next chemo round shortly. We are mentally better prepared this time for the fatigue and are basically planning a week of rest. I'm sure I will be heading to the library for some good movies and maybe a couple of audiobooks. He finds it easier to follow a book audibly than visually. He is also enjoying some issues of Popular Science and Macleans. Wouldn't read the scrapbooking magazine I brought along, though- go figure.
He is quite looking forward to shaving off the beard next Saturday and hopes to be able to attend the "judging" BBQ that day. (Last call for donations!)
http://books.google.ca/books?id=QelWBxrbcx8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=mindfulness-based+cancer+recovery&source=bl&ots=_yclOnRXQv&sig=RQn1IBoElhLBUIIGcWCOzLtiTbg&hl=en&ei=fBhSTaPOGo3ksQPG-bXrBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
ReplyDeleteIf this book comes in audio you may want to look for it. I have heard that it has been helpful to other people living with cancer.
All the best,
Marie (Ahle) Heathcott
Hey family,
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you're taking time out. Sounds like the "hotel thing" is a vacationing of sorts. Remembering your Dad's birthday today, Ramsy, and the stalwart godly example he was to us all. Take care for your healing. We love you. Hope the final $ amount for beard growing is really worth while the fuzzy wuzzy stuff on your face!
Blessings, and with love,
Aunt, Tante,or just...Hanny
Ramsy,
ReplyDeleteThe Lord Jesus has put you on my heart to encourage you with the following scriptures:
Mt. 8:16-17 When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:
17That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
and Mt.11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
God's love reigns and rains upon you,
a brother in Jesus Christ
Stephen Polson
Thought of you today and prayed.... as I was coming home I heard this new song called Blessings by Laura Story. I was truly moved by her testimony. I encourage you to check it out if you can. Just copy and paste the link.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9irePc-iI
I have asked for healing and I continue to, yet somehow I think the blessings like she says come through raindrops and that our healing comes through tears. May God show you the "hidden blessings" in these great trials you are all faced with.
Stand firm on Christ the solid rock. All other ground is simply sinking sand.
Ramsy, my brother in Jesus Christ, though I really don’t know you at all, I may have met you for seconds and that was years ago, the Holy Spirit continues to put scriptures on my heart for you: words of great comfort, consolation, hope and wholeness for you and your family. Be strong! Be encouraged! God has spoken and given these especially for you.
ReplyDeleteWait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.—Ps. 27:14
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?—Num. 23:19
Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.—Ps. 103:1-5
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.—Heb. 12:2-3
Lay hold of these in your heart and let no one steal Truth from you.
Stephen Polson