The End and The Beginning

This is Angie. I am writing to tell you that my friend, this spunky, courageous, perseverent, witty, sometimes grouchy, remarkable woman, is suddenly unable to continue her blogs. Our enemy, cancer,  is causing her pain and making it difficult for her to breathe, keeping her in bed, and stealing her life.

But it can’t steal her real life!!! Soon...she will be able to lift her hands in praise, and eat a crunchy apple and take a walk, and sing at the top of her lungs. 

My heart aches, and thrills...

I can do all things

I Can Do All Things-Lately, the Bible verse that says that I can do all
things through Christ who strengthens me has been rolling around in my
thoughts. Philippians 4:13, I think. Too frequently, I that this is too hard
and I can't do it anymore. Then that scripture comes to mind and I just keep
on keeping on. 

Job

Job-Now that Christmas is over, I must get back to the mini-blogs. I was
thinking about the story of Job in the Bible. I can identify with a lot of
what Job was feeling as he was going through things. That particular day,
though, I was thinking of one specific way that Job and I are the same. We
both found it much easier to make faith-filled statements before the pain.
Pain has a way of distracting from faith. Because of pain, I feel as if I am
losing my vision of total healing. But I do have one advantage over Job. I
have Jesus and the Holy Spirit to help me through it. Poor Job didn't even
have that!