New Blog

Please join me on the new blog I've started to chronicle God's faithfulness since Steve was diagnosed with cancer. Here is the address:

ASurehope.blogspot.com.

Our Journey

It's been a long hiatus; however, the time has come for me to start writing again. I pray that those who read this will be encouraged by God's grace and love and know that the promises in His Word are true. Life as we know it can change in an instant. My husband Steve and I celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary on January 12, 2013. A week later our world turned upside down. James 4:14 says, "Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away." That reality can smack you in the face when you least expect it. January 19, 2013 will be forever burned into my memory. As I sat enthralled by the stories from the missionaries at our missions conference at Denton Bible Church, I felt a touch on my shoulder. I looked up and saw Steve beckoning me to join him in the foyer. After we sat down, he said, "The doctor just called me with the test results. The CT scan showed the lymph nodes are enlarged, and the chest X-ray showed that my lungs have shrunk. She thinks I have lymphoma. She's sending me to a surgeon for a biopsy." Stunned and shocked, I looked up and saw Mike Spencer, one of our pastors and our ABF teacher. We walked over and told him what we had just found out. He prayed with us and comforted us. We know without a doubt that God had Mike in the foyer just for us. Our heavenly Father started us on this journey with love and grace, and He continues to shower us with blessings too numerous to tell. So our journey began. Walk along with me as I recount God's faithfulness and the peace and joy He's given us these past months. Till next time...