It is easy to forget that we have a treacherous invader in our midst.
Life is full of activities, celebrations, new friends, new challenges for growth and more! I have been going out of town for business related trips and Ernie has been less at home now too prioritizing time for Parish, Knights of Columbus and often getting together with his beloved class 66! (oooppps that reveals his age). Travelling away from home more than a day though is a different matter. His diet and constant juicing limits his movement. One coming exception will be on the 2nd week of March when we spend 2 nights and 3 days in Dakak in Mindanao - complete R and R amidst the powdery white sand by the beach!!
Ernie and I have started almost weekly Sunday afternoon formation courses for Ligaya ng Panginoon, our Catholic Community. We are so thrilled to meet so many warm and loving members of Ligaya who cheer us up and continuously pray for us. Community love is something hard to describe -it can only be experienced and cherished! Relationships here are becoming more intimate....prayer has been our powerful ally and having the LORD in our life gives us peace, comfort and hope.
Ryan shuttles between photo shoots, interview for articles he writes, meetings for CORRIDOR OF HOPE - the NGO he leads and helping me with out family business THINKWELL.
End of February is also the end of Ernie's 90 days of Iressa - oral chemo targetted for lungs. Next step is a complete workup and evaluation again - most probably another PET scan to measure not only decrease in tumor size but cancer's actual biologic activity. It will be 18 months of treatment. Only after evaluation by Dr Gorospe will we know what is the next course of action.
Our fervent prayer is for GOD to have healed Ernie COMPLETELY. In Jesus name, we rebuke all disease left in Ernies body...not a single cancer cell. HE only has to will it, and it shall be done. LORD we trust in YOU!!
As you read, please pause....and say a prayer too for this intention.
I recently read a story about Mother Theresa. She had a dream to build a magnificent church in India. But all she had was 10cents. People all around laughed at her!! "How can you build a church with 10cents?"..they ridiculed. Mother Theresa said "With 10cents I can do nothing, but with 10 cents and GOD, I can do ANYTHING!"
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