Prayer Request

Hello again! Hope everything is well with you and your family, and that you are enjoying the beginning of a beautiful spring! We are all doing great, and enjoying our life that amazingly seems much richer this year!

I never dreamed when I was involuntarily plunged into membership in the cancer club how my life would be changed. It seems like daily I am learning of friends, family members, and acquaintances who are newly diagnosed...young, old, in between. People just like me, who have no history or risk factors, "don't smoke, don't chew, don't hang around with those who do..." type people who are just blindsided by the news. It's alarming, really.

Case in point...our teaching pastor from Fellowship Bible Church. Phillip was just recently informed that he "might" have cancer. Still awaiting the results of a biopsy. He was told that it might be lung cancer, lymphoma, or...an infection! I told him Sunday that I had never before prayed for my pastor to have an infection, but that was exactly what I've been doing. Although we are members of Calvary Baptist, we just recently began attending Fellowship again. Fellowship was our home church for many years, and when we introduced our friends to it last fall, we felt the urge to go back. So...we've been "visiting" for awhile now.

Anyhoo...all that to say that maybe this is why. I had a wonderful visit with Phillip in the hallway last Sunday, and we understand one another on an entirely different plane now. I hope his diagnosis comes back to say that our camaraderie is short lived, and that it is truly an infection. Either way...God is good.

When you think of it, would you please pray for Phillip and his family? What a blow...even if temporary. I can say from experience that it takes awhile to recover from the initial news...and he and I both agreed that if someone were to say, "Well...looks like we made a mistake! It's just an infection!", we'd kiss 'em on the jaw and run out of the room!

You can read about his updates on the church website here. Just click on "Phillip's Health" on the left hand side.

Thank you for your continued prayers for me and my family. I had a great doctor's visit on Tuesday here in town, and had another Herceptin treatment. Life is good!

Blessings to you all!

Leslie