Let There Be Life 💕

Greetings! It’s been a minute since my last post. I’m doing great and continuing to thrive. I had bloodwork done on 3/26 and saw my oncologist on 4/1! My results were perfect and my physical exam went great too!

Next up, a colonoscopy scheduled for 4/29 and a CT scan early May (I need to get that scheduled this week).

So, I wasn’t really planning on writing a blog today but I’ve been feeling compelled to share a little something that came to my heart after my HealingStrong support group meeting yesterday. During our meeting life and death was bought up which, over the past 24 hours, has led me to much deeper thoughts on the topic. So this is going to be a very brief post about my thoughts on life and death. I’ve thought about it (and the conversation from yesterday) a lot and here are my personal thoughts about it.

Life and death, broken down into BC and AD.

Death:

BC (before cancer) I wasn’t afraid of death. I just thought it was inevitable, we all have to die sometime. I honestly didn’t give it a lot of thought.

Life:

AD (after diagnosis) l want to LIVE!! I have eternity to spend in heaven and it will be epic but I want to be with my husband now. I want to be with my family. I want to share Jesus with the world! I’m here, I’m healthy (or getting there lol) because Jesus healed me! He is the one who brought me through this storm and gave me the strength and determination to go through these past few months. It’s because I have the name of Jesus on my heart that I want to live!! It’s the name that is above every name! Because I found my way through the darkness and turned my entire life over to Jesus, I’ve been delivered and I’m so grateful…I choose LIFE! In the name of Jesus, I choose life!

I’m grateful that this topic came up yesterday and I’m grateful I had the opportunity to discuss it with people I’ve really just met but love already 🫶🏼. They’re awesome people and it’s nice having people in my corner who can relate to what I’m going through.

That’s all for now, thanks for

reading!

I’ll close this post with a verse that God put on my heart while I was meditating on life and death

today.

Psalms 118:17 (NKJV)

I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.

Until next time….keep joy in your mind and in your heart!

Much love and many blessings,

Ali

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