The Finish Line

Hello to all my readers.

I know it is time for a long overdue update. And I have good news to share. Yesterday, May 27th I had my last chemo treatment. It is not completed yet, since I have to carry around this pump for two days. But I get it off tomorrow, the 29th and that is it for chemo. I am D-O-N-E, done! It has not been an easy process, nor without its lingering side affects. But it is wonderful to think that I am finished with this step in the process.

I sincerely thank all who have prayed and expressed love and support in so many ways. It has been a very wonderful experience to be on the receiving end of such love.

What does the future hold? In about 30 days they will schedule a CAT scan, as I am told, to establish a baseline for me. Then they will repeat the process of a CAT scan about every 3 months to keep a check on my progress. Ideally they will find nothing, no recurrence and I will have a clean bill of health moving forward. After a few clean scans I will be able to schedule to have my port removed and that too will be a real relief. So we, both Pam - who has been incredibly wonderful, loving and supportive through this whole process - and I are ready to move forward, God willing. I still am taking a blood thinning medicine daily. The doctor said Tuesday that I should continue this for a year. This is a result of the leg clots I experienced after my first surgery. But beyond that I am done with this treatment.

Again, thank you so much to all who have prayed. God is truly wonderful to hear and answer our prayers. We don't know what the future holds, what He has planned for this, whether this is it, or there are other phases to experience. But we do know that He is good and all our trials are brought to us in His loving plan. We pray that all this that we have experienced together, Pam and I, has had its good effect in our hearts and character, and that in the future we live more conformed to the image of His wonderful Son. For as Paul reminds us, whether we live or die we are the Lord's (Romans 14:8). And we rest in the wonderful assurance that He who has loved us from eternity and chose us in His Son, - who in the fullness of time sent His only begotten Son into the world to accomplish our redemption, - who then in our space and time quicken and renewed our hearts making us alive unto God, - and then sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts to seal and guarantee our future inheritance, - that He who has so purposed our redemption in Christ from eternity and worked it all out in our history, will ultimately finish His wonderful work and bring us safely to His presence and kingdom. Hallelujah!

And all God's people said, "Amen! and Amen!"

Walt

P.S. the picture at the top is a sunrise, not sunset...smile. There is a wonderful difference.