It is amazing to see the beauty of life begin all over again each Spring! The new life of a human being,
flowers of all kinds, trees in their preparation for protection from the sun and a place for the birds
building their home for the summer and fall living and bring forth new life of their own.
As I watch the flowers pop out the tops of their plant I am excited because of the event of the flower
is the next attraction.
Soon the bees will be humming around the flowers gathering the pollen and the butterflies will begin the beauty of showing off their beauty. I surround the house with plants to draw the bees, butterflies
and the hummingbirds and my birdbath is a gathering place for the birds.
I have the privilege of watching all of this from my back porch as I sit on my swing. I play music that I know will attract the birds, don't laugh it really does work!
This is a Spring I really looked forward to and share with my husband of Fifty {50} years and I had reason to believe we would not be sharing this together this year.
In Sept. of 2012 my dear husband was diagnosed with a mass in the abdominal cavity of which was not
clear what it was. Through many scans and test and biopsies, finally on January 15, 2013 I watched them take him back to surgery that lasted 8 1/2 hours and two hours in recovery in ICU.
This was a journey I really didn't want to walk, but we don't get to pick all of our journeys in life do we. Was I happy and want to do this? Absolutely not, it was a scary day for us both. I sat in my living room four weeks before surgery, praying for peace within me I couldn't seem to receive. That afternoon I stopped what I was doing and realized I wasn't anxious nor unsettled anymore. God gives the Peace that is beyond all comprehension and understanding.
As I sat with a few close friends and a son on watch with me as my dear husband lay in the operating room being opened up, I sat with such a haze around my mind, which I believe was to protect my sanity, and the peace was still with me. After 6 hours I must admit, not hearing from anyone how he was doing, I was getting anxious. I jumped up and went to the nurses desk and ask if they could check on him for me. They let me talk to the nurse in the operating room and she assured me he was doing fine but still had a few hours to go.
When the called me to the "little" room to wait on the doctor to come and let me know how it went, my son came in with me and we just sat smiling at each other like to lost souls. He finally arrived to tell us the mass was much larger than expected and that part of the pancreas had been removed and they felt they got all the cancer from there. Next, the spleen had been removed and in between those two organs there sat five lymph nodes in the middle of the mass surrounding the pancreas and spleen. My heart felt like it skipped several beats when he said "lymph nodes".
My husband had lost a tremendous amount of blood and had to have transfusions and had to have platelets replaced. I was expecting to see him the gray color he had before surgery but when we walked into his room he was "rosy cheeked" and tried to smile and talk but with the tube just being removed he could only whisper and the first thing he said was "I made it back didn't I". I held back the tears until my son walked me out into the hall and we both cried together.
The Doctor came in later in the evening and Dave was sitting on the side of the bed dangling his feet. He said he was totally amazed at Dave and how he came through. I said we have an Amazing God.
It takes sometimes up to three weeks for the pancreas to function because of disturbing it for such a long time and removing part of it. It sort of gets tired of being bothered and goes to sleep.
Let me tell you they all took notice to see it function in three days as if nothing happened. Dave walked out of the hospital on the fourth day after his dramatic surgery and dramatic miracle.
Today we are celebrating life and watching Spring come in rejoicing with Nature the Power of God
and the new life he gives us daily through his Son Jesus Christ.
Between surgery and today we have had two Great-Granddaughters born, how blessed we are and so
thankful for them to come into our families.
This is where you will find me on nice days watching the birds, bees, hummingbirds and butterflies put on their show of beauty for us. There is something to be said about having a swing to sit on and enjoy all thats around you .
May the Mighty God of Heaven be in your hearts today and may Jesus be the one you recognize as the way and only way to be with God.
Read the Word of God today and find the path of Peace only that comes from God which I am so thankful for today and everyday.
I also am blessed to have a friend who sits with me through the good and not so good and she is like a sister to me who keeps me going in the right direction when I veer of to the left or right when I should be going straight. I pray you have a friend like that.
May the Sonshine on you as he does on me!
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