God is with us, All will be well!

“We must not doubt in the darkness what God has shown us in the light.– “The Red Sea Rules,” Robert J. Morgan.

I didn’t doubt when I signed up for Hospice that it was the right thing to do. These are caring, compassionate people whose total goal is my comfort. We can never know how much time we have but as I’ve said before, I trust myself to the hands of God.

I regret that I won’t see my book, “Texting Through Cancer, Ordinary Moments of Community, Love, and Healing,” published by Upper Room Books next March. It is an example of letting go and letting God for all the details, like trusting my publisher and Amazon to help distribute it. All of life, in the end, is about letting go to the Great I AM.

I’m incredibly grateful to the Indiana Gazette for these four years to share my journey thru cancer, which is now nearing its end. I’ve been blessed by hundreds, if not thousands of you, my readers. No one hoped it would come to this, but all stories reach a conclusion. I’m confident that angels will escort me when my time comes.

The other night I awoke as Jim was making popcorn downstairs. I smelled buttery memories, like those collected over our 50 years together. I wave and say, “Good-bye, popcorn!” lightheartedly. God is teaching me to detach bit by bit from treasures of the past. While memories and people are wrapped in love, detachment says there is a time and place for everything to say good-bye until we are finally immersed in the Love of all Love.

A friend told me that many people will mourn as I leave that final shore. Sadly, I turn to board my boat. That’s when I see a crowd of folks on the other side, waving me home. Jesus is rowing my boat, caring for me as he always has and will do into eternity. Oh Lord, I don’t grasp what that means except to know my loving Lord presses me me close.

Perfect love casts out fear, my friends.

Jesus loves me, this I know. For the Bible tells me so.

All will be well.