I had a biology teacher who once told me as I was dealing with my teenage trials "remember two things in life and you will always be happy, at least you are not pregnant and you don't have cancer!" His wife died after a long battle with cancer, so for him it was a good day when no one else had it either. Then there is the whole teenage pregnancy thing. Happy thought number one is that for me that saying is still true for both...almost died having baby number two and I was overjoyed to find out I am currently cancer-free! I thought of that today as I dealt with some very deep, very difficult struggles. They are the ones that cannot be expressed and still can't really comprehend, but tears were shed today as we fought through some rough HOURS of our lives.
My next happy moment of the day was getting a babysitter and attending a session at a Mormon Temple in Newport Beach. It was so wonderful to enjoy the peace and beauty of the temple tonight. We were so blessed to see so many people who have meant so much to us in our lives tonight! We saw many friendly faces of people working at the temple from our old congregation back in Brea. I was able to find out about one of the elderly ladies and was happy to hear she is still alive and sweet as ever. (Never miss out on becoming friends with people MUCH older than you, those can be friendships that last now and forever!) I also saw my Jr. year of high school Seminary teacher. He was my favorite (sorry if any others are reading this!) but he brought doughnuts and talked to all of us like we were adults...HE actually survived a bout of cancer himself right around the time I discovered I had Rheumatoid Arthritis...discovering and fighting our diseases sort of made us linked for life! There was so much joy tonight! It was a nice time being alone with David somewhere very quiet for a couple of hours as well. Happy to have made it through the day and blogged about it. Night Night!
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