Waiting used to feel like wasted time. Lately, I’m learning it’s just another form of faith in motion.

As treatment days blur together, I’m reminded that healing is more than medicine—it’s gratitude, patience, and the steady practice of hope.

Houston wasn’t on my bucket list, but it’s where the road to healing has led me. Between the hospital visits, city noise, and unexpected...

Friday's visit brought encouraging news — and a renewed sense of gratitude for small mercies along the way. We again met with APRN Michelly who covered my labs from earlier that morning and answered all our questions. Through MyChart, the online patient portal, I can see my lab results as soon as they’re available. Over the past few weeks, I’ve learned what to look for — especially my white blood cell count. If it’s too low, I know I’ll get a Filgrastim shot. They’re not real

Welcome to the 15th floor of the MD Anderson Cancer Center. This is where I eventually ended up last Thursday morning, although when I...

We've been stuck in a cold, rainy weather pattern for several days now. The kind that hangs a curtain of humidity in the air so heavy...

A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the...

Intertwined with the tropical beauty around us and the gracious hospitality of our hosts, there were constant reminders of the...

There is an abiding comfort a mother feels in those moments when she knows her child is safe and snug in his bed. That he is no longer a...

O n a recent trip to Oklahoma City to visit and provide support to my elderly father, I had the always joyful opportunity to get...

“Living is a much different concept than survival.”

There was really no reason to hurry... ...I thought to myself, as I pushed my shopping cart down the luggage aisle at the Walmart...

A little Latin phrase with the meaning of “love your fate.” It appears simple, as long as fate or fortune is in our desire or favor, I...

Pain. In the unconscious state of a dream, I felt it – the throbbing in my right elbow. As I talked to someone known to me only in this...

Remember Death This little phrase, seemingly morbid to some, can really be a game changer for the life we get to live every day. For me,...

Patience. Waiting. Relaxing and letting go. That was what I needed to do. I knew it, too. This morning it all began to come together. As...

“For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring Word of God. For all people...

I didn’t go to the Stephenson Center last Friday to have my CVC flushed. Instead, after the postponement of my admission on Tuesday due...

Written Wednesday, 19 May 2021 If you’re reading this now, we are kindred spirits, and I thank you. Recently I had a loved one tell me in...

Today I find myself in unfamiliar territory—an unplanned day, or as the title suggests, a “nothing day.” I had nothing planned for today...