This week is crazy busy, with all the Christmas preparations. I've been so busy, in fact, that I have barely any Christmas shopping done. So, I'd like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, and let you know that I won't be posting on this blog for this week, but next week I'll get back to posting each day. Let me leave you with this post, by Kathy Christensen - guest blogger... enjoy your holidays, and count your blessings!
-Kara
"Last weekend I traveled to St. George to spend time with my mother who is in the final stages of Multiple Myaloma (Cancer of the bone marrow. We are no strangers to Cancer in my family. Dad has survived Colon Cancer,Prostate Cancer, and also has skin cancers removed on a regular basis. I am a Breast Cancer Survivor and thankfully received the report this week that my follow up mammogram was clean and Cancer free.
As I spent these precious moments with my mother, I looked on this blessed Christmas Season with a new and profound gratitude. My mother's days are now numbered. She is made more comfortable and pain free by Methadone, Oxygen and Ativan for anxiousness. As I pondered in my mind the significance of this holiday and why we celebrate it, I realized (or rediscovered) that my mother is going to a far better place. She lost a little girl with Liver disease over 50 years ago and that baby (Cindy was her name)has waited a long time to have her mother back.
As we gather on Christmas Eve this year with our family, we will once again celebrate the life and mission of our Savior Jesus Christ. His life and mission are the most precious gifts that any of us will ever receive. Because of Him, we know our loved ones are not gone forever; they are just absent for a short time until we will eventually, at our appointed time, join them never again to be separated.
Despite the fact that Cancer is NOT my friend, I will be forever grateful in the part it has played to strengthen my level of gratitude for this knowledge and the strength it gives me each and every day of my life."
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