Christmas 2013... a special one spent at our own Christmas tree as the request of J and K:)

In January this year we got our clear 3 and half year blood work.  What a joy to get this good news.  We can plan and live another 6 months! 

That sounds great I know.  In reality, it’s a hard thing.  To not plan past 6 months.  Our ministry plans span a year, my daughters gym training has a year or at least 3 school terms goal, we as a family plan trips together, we buy homeschool materials for longer than that … all past 6 months.  I remember  while going through chemo:  the phrase that came back over and over… ‘one day at a time’.  It was true. One survives like that.  You don’t know whats around the corner.  Even now, tho the one day has increased to 6 months, we still don’t know whats around the corner.  Our 5 years are up yet…  and even then!?

There’s nothing wrong with the coping strategies we use.     We make our plans, we dream our dreams… but now we submit them before His grace and His plan.  Only He knows whats ahead and around the corner for any of us……  We make our plans, but in faith, we allow Him to direct our steps.