The Joy of Cancer

Not long ago I wrote about CHOOSING joy. . There are times when this choice is tested...now is one of those times. There are times when you want to fall apart, give up, break down and call it a day. But you can choose not to.
It isn't always easy.

Two weeks ago, after a season of being a little more tired than usual and a complexion reflecting more limited sunlight...so we thought... Jon became quite weak. He couldn't go up the stairs without stopping, and then he couldn't climb them without sitting down. His Doctor ordered a multitude of tests to find the reasoning behind his racing breath and heart.

When the results came back he was advised to go straight to the emergency room. His hemoglobin levels were very low and he received two units of blood. The more worrisome question was "why"?

Jon went for a colonoscopy a few days later and the results were obvious.

There are moments of your life, that you imagine, just to be cruel to yourself, just to remind yourself that things could be worse. Just to throw back up the walls of your bubble and say "good thing that won't happen to us".

Until it does.

Jon has Cancer.

rather, I should say- it HAD him.

Jon is now FIGHTING Cancer.

The thing about this is that it is not a condition that only one person acquires. It is something that a FAMILY experiences. It impacts on many and differing levels everyone involved.

WE are fighting Cancer. The entire family, and we couldn't do it without them!

There is power in numbers. We are bigger, braver, stronger and more determined than this cancer could ever be.

We are beating it.

We will do it with joy.
It doesn't mean it will be easy...far from it. But we will find the joy in the outpouring of kindness, support, love, prayers and service given so generously to us. We will find joy in every single moment we are gifted with. We will find joy in laughter and tears. We will find Joy in the moments that seem more like a blessing then we may not have otherwise realized. We will find joy in the strength we gain individually and as a family as we go through this.

We will find Joy in Cancer.