"It's Just a Storm!"

In just one week, the fourth of July will have arrived. As I have said before, the next two weeks will be the "calm before the storm," being given the time for my mastectomy to heal as well as my emotions. I am headed to my daughter's in Wilmington, NC this weekend for some needed rest. Suspecting something awry with my breast the last time I was at her apartment and that the "winds of danger" were swirling about me, I placed an object on her couch arm when leaving, knowing that no one would be there to disturb it and wondering what would be my fate the next time I returned to see it or if I ever would. I am looking forward to going through the door and walking over to the couch and seeing this object, remembering all that God has brought me through since I laid it there. My next doctor's appointment is scheduled for Tuesday, July 9th, where I'll have a cardiogram and a meeting concerning my chemo schedule and all the details. I suspect I will begin chemo that week. Everytime I start to fear, the phone rings, an email comes in, a facebook message, a friend stops by, just to say...I love you...I'm thinking about you...I'm praying for you. How wonderful it is to know that there are so many people out there who genuinely care for you. A storm may be raging around me...but I am so thankful I know the ONE who can calm it!...He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Psalm 107:29