With all my Heart

I continue to be so very thankful to God for all he has done in the last week.  The Surgeon has said that my surgery went as well as a major surgery could've gone. He had said the surgery was 5 hours, after a late start  3 hours later I was in recovery.  He had prepared us for blood transfusions since this type of surgery was considered a bloody one, though no transfusions were needed. All the nurses and aides that helped me at Moffitt were wonderful and I could tell they felt at ease in my room, since our conversations flowed freely as if we were all friends that we just hadn't met yet.  There was a wonderful peacefulness there that can only come from God.

Speaking of friends, I had an old friend show up to visit 4 days after surgery, I was so surprised!  As she poked her head in the door she said had brought two special friends. To my surprise it was Pastor Chipo from Celebration Church Zimbabwe Africa and her assistant.  They had come to the US to attend the Shine Women's Conference at Celebration Church Jacksonville Fl.  I've have attended this conference many years and had met Pastor Chipo and her husband Pastor Dixon at this church several times.  Of course this year the conference had fallen during the week that the doctors discovered my cancer and I was unable to attend.   I don't believe there was any way my friend Marsha knew I had met Pastor Chipo  or that Pastor Chipo knew that I knew Marsha, it just wouldn't have been a natural connection for anyone. God use these women to bring healing of a friendship, pray with me, bring joy to me that day by making me feel extra special & extra loved.
 That  must have put a little spring in my step because later that day as I was doing my walking in the hospital corridors; I saw a lady walking out of her room with assistance by an nurse's aide and another woman.  After I had past her I heard her say "I want to be like her, walking like her before I leave here."    So I today thank the Lord for the Crown of kindness and love He paces on my head, a crown that made me feel loved and a crown of kindness to inspire someone else today.

1 With all my heart

I praise the Lord,

and with all that I am

I praise his holy name!

2 With all my heart

I praise the Lord!

I will never forget

how kind he has been.

3 The Lord forgives our sins,

heals us when we are sick,

4 and protects us from death.

His kindness and love

are a crown on our heads.

                                                                   Pslams 103:1-4