Last year on this day, we were preparing for major surgery for John. We were finishing a swim season, preparing for a banquet with truly no regard for how our 6 year old had done in her swim meets. Our hearts were heavy and our minds were full. The only thing that was at the center of our minds was this surgery, this 10+ hour surgery. Was it the right thing? Would it work? Were we looking at another set back? Would they just find more cancer? These were the only questions on our minds and in our hearts.
What we know 1 year later was that the surgery did work. It was a long road (September 2011) before we reaped what was carefully sewn by Dr. Shanda Blackmon. But to this day, we continue to reap and reap in the form of John eating and eating and eating some more. This was our goal and it was met. Many others blessings have come in this year in the form of peace, relief and freedom from worry along with a sound faith in God that continues to grow daily.
We are also greatly humbled tonight because we realize that the battle, or rather the war, on cancer still rages on. So we are happy tonight for ourselves and the fact that we are able to celebrate our daughter's achievements in the pool. We will watch her this year in the invitational meet rather than hearing the results via text from our hospital room. Lord, we are ever so grateful for this blessing. But our hearts are not as light as we had hoped because for us the victory flag flies but for others, some nearest and dearest to us, the battle still rages. In our hearts, we prayed that we were fighting this battle so that others we loved did not have to fight. That has not proven to be so. We are bummed about that but we also know that this is just a season for them as it was for us. Their battles will also come to victory in the end because our heavenly father will make it so.
Tonight we ask you to pray for those still battling cancer particularly Charlie, James, Shirley and Enid. Thank you for all your prayers for us.
Love,
Becah, John, Bree, Brooke & Brett
Swim 2011 (Bree is the driver!)
Swim 2012
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