Crawl Up In His Lap, by Sally

What an adventure I have been through. In my last blog, "All Is Well", I wrote about finding out I had uterine cancer and needing surgery. And I wrote about getting that "Good Report."
I was confident that after surgery it would all be over. It wasn't. Then I went through another very strange adventure. At the last visit to the gynecologist I was told that I still had type 1b cancer. To me that meant I have cancer. The doctor made appointments for a colonoscopy, a mammogram, and a visit to an oncologist. I was so shocked. I still had cancer.

Our Christmas letter was first about some wonderful gals that were wanting to get involved with our beloved Vessels and Flowers ministry, and it was about asking my friends and family to pray for me because I had to go through 5 weeks of radiation therapy for cancer. It wasn't until after a few visits to the oncology clinic that it began to get through to me that I had misunderstood the facts. I did not still have cancer. The facts were that the cancer had been removed with the body part, but it had been more pervasive than the doctors had thought and they were concerned that it might now be in lymph nodes and other places. I had not gotten that. Perhaps all of this is does not make much sense. It didn't to me either.

When I realized the truth, I didn't know whether to be relieved or embarrassed. Actually, I was both. I was so relieved that I did not now have active cancer. And I was rather embarrassed that I had so messed it all up. I now know that it is going to take longer than I thought to get that "Good Report."

So now Sally Lou goes to the oncology clinic five times a week for her treatments. And God has done some wonderful things to get me through this. To have these treatments I had to put on a lovely hospital gown on the regular backward way, (Ugh!) and then another on frontward as kind of a robe. Because of my sore right arm this was very hard to do. On one of these days, Brenda had been visiting and the weather was bad, so she took me down to the clinic and she helped me into this contraption. God bless Brenda.

When I went in for the therapy, I mentioned to the technician that something had to give. Either I had to have friends come every time to help me, or someone there just had to come and give the lady a hand. But the technician told me that really they had other ways, and I would not have to put on the gowns at all!! When I joyously told Brenda about this, she just looked at me and reminded me that My Heavenly Father was just looking out for me and making this as easy as it could be for me. What a blessing that was!

Also, during all of this, a wonderful, sweet friend called to pray for me. She reminded me that once when I was ministering to her, I encouraged her to crawl up on the lap of Jesus. She said that it had meant so much to her. Then she told me that it was what I needed to do now. The next time I went for therapy, I could picture myself crawling up into that warm, wonderful place on Jesus's lap. Now during therapy I pray, praise the Lord, sing and enjoy His protection and love.

During this season of my life I can greatly sense many friends and family praying for me. It is so comforting. That prayer support is so essential, especially right now. I do appreciate that prayer so much. Thank you all for praying for me.

What a wonderful place to be, in His lap. I encourage you to crawl up in His love and in His care when those times come when you need Him.

Blessings