April 29, 2012

Wow, been a while since I posted.   So long they changed the interface on this blog sight.  Hmmm.  It has been an interesting month.  You would think that after something like cancer, everything else would just roll off you like water off a ducks back( I have yet to see water do that off a duck, but it is apparently a saying).  But life continues with its twists and turns.  I am approaching my 1 year anniversary from completing chemo.  Time flies. Another CT scan in 2 weeks.  June and I had to make some important decisions in the last few months.  Things that permanently affect the rest of our lives.  It has been an interesting journey.  I read that most cancer patients that get better, return to their normal lives.  I am fighting to not be part of that statistic.  Thank you all who came out for my sharing at church.  If you missed it, here's the link
http://www.tenth.ca/media.php?pageID=29 .

I am always grateful to Pastor Ken and Pastor David Jones for allowing me to share how cancer changed me and brought me closer to God and my friends and family.  Stress seems to be creeping back into my life, may it be work or family life or life in general.  Today I got to help out for Rhys' sunday school.  About 20 screaming kids and Rhys telling everyone that  I am her daddy and running back to me each time I tried to help a kid.  Like animal territorial stalking.  I am surprised she didn't pee on me to mark her territory.  Kid's are awesome- one kid wouldn't listen to me unless I called him spiderman and another kid kept taking off his shoes and socks.

I have been trying to take more photos lately...here are a few thousand words about my daughter, RHys (don't call me 3, I'm 5) Sofia Yeung...

April 1, 2012

I went to a fundraiser banquet last night for Daybreak Point Bible Camp.  It's a camp that we volunteer at in the summer.  I ran into some people I haven't seen in years.  Made me feel old.  Almost 15 years ago, my friend Chris brought me up there to volunteer.  7 days, 100 kids and a chance to share Christ and your life with them.  Now some of these kids we  met back then are graduating university.  Staff members we use to run around with are now married with kids.  Where did all the time go?  I remember telling a co-worker about the camp years ago and she was astonished.  She said, " you get 2 weeks of holiday a year and you waste 1 week of it volunteering at a kids camp?"  I thought that was funny, the work "waste".  I could sit here ignorantly and say that I have done a lot for these kids I meet.  In truth, this camp has done more for me than I could ever have given back.  I met June up there (that's quite a draw eh- volunteer at a camp, get a girlfriend- should be on the brochure). I proposed to June up there (with chris in bthe bushes and a video camera) I discovered how God works in mysterious ways.  You don't know what kind of impact or how God will use you in the lives of these young people.  I met my life long friends up there.  Sometimes it is just hard to describe- one of those, "you had to be there" situations.  I remember coming back from camp and telling all my buddies about what happened during the week.  They didn't get it.  I remember driving to one of my chemo sessions and thinking about the worst case scenario- if I died, I would not see Rhys grow up at the camp as I had envisioned.  That was one of my big worries, weird.  I went to Daybreak as an adult- never got to experience the life of a camper or a staff kid.  Two years ago, we went up as a family.  Rhys loved it- running around with 100 older kids for a week.  Funny how something as small as a week volunteering at a bible camp- turns into 15 years of memories and lasting relationships.  Where our lives will take us, only God knows.  


Rhys with Uncle Chris