Day 6

2 Corinthians 12:9 (The Message Bible) 

   "'My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness'.  Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my weakness. Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size—abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become."

Thats a weird concept, even as a read it- the weaker i become- the stronger I become.  It begins to make sense when I realized that it means to put total trust in God.  Easy to say, harder to do.  Having gone through 5 days of chemo- I have to say that it has been quite a peaceful time.  None of the panic that had set in waiting for results of tests or scans.  Obviously the end goal is being cured, but along the way- there is much time that will go by and how you go about tackling that is almost as important as the end result.  His grace is sufficient for me.  I spent the day talking to Frank and Caron Bernstein.  Owners of Freedman shoes on Granville (hookup for life).  The more people I meet in treatment, the more I get a sense of people fighting for not only life in beating cancer, but living life to its fullest while in the midst of the fight.  We argued about who had the commonest cancer- haha- whatever gets you through the iv drip right.  He loses more organs so I think I win…or we hope that we both win.