Unnamed and Unfinished

I am not big on New Year’s Resolutions.   I have nothing against you if you are into it, in fact I used to get really into setting resolutions.   But I never kept them all year… ever… and that became depressing, so I quit.     For the past few years I have embraced a different concept.   I name each year.   It is based on the concept of “One Word”  , but I am too wordy to keep it at a mete word most years.     I loved Ann Voskamp's perspective as well, " but as we name our newborn, so we name our new year, christen it so it knows who it is to us. Named, we now have a destination, a way across the next twelve months."   We are very close to the start of 2018, and the year is BEGGING me to settle on a name.   So I have! REDEEMED   Isaiah 43 is such a powerful chapter of scripture and has shaped this name.     But now, this is what the Lord says—     he who cre...

I don’t want to keep you in suspense, so here is the short answer:   It’s not cancer!   I was leaving one of the childcare providers I visit for work and saw the phone number from Big’s surgeon, Dr. R, on the phone.   I immediately pulled off and answered.     Dr. R: Hello Mom, How’s your day? Me: I think whatever you tell me will determine that! Dr. R: Then you are having a GREAT DAY! We got Big’s pathology report back and she doesn’t have cancer.   She has Kikuchi Fujimoto disease.   Do you have a pen and paper, because I know you need me to spell that.   After he spelled it, I of course asked what it was.   Dr. R admitted its really rare and he doesn’t know much about it.   He told me what he knows:   Its benign.   Its usually treated with anti-inflammatory meds and sometimes steroids.   It is caused by lots of dead cells building up in the lymph nodes.   Its usually in Asian women.  ...