Back in October of last year I was invited to talk to the Puyallup chapter of Aglow International. I had recorded the whole thing on my little GoPro, but then it just kind of sat there. And sat there. Until now. This weaves together my story with Psalms 42-43 and some thoughts on hope. I call it “The Audacity of …
The Seattle Journal 5
(This is part five of a series. You can read part one here, two here, three here, four here, and the book that started it here.) While I was in bed with mouth sores, Sarah was one floor up in the hospital’s little family room ministering to families. She met Matthew and learned about his sister. She met Barb, and …
The Seattle Journal 3
(This is part three of a series. You can read part one here, part two here, and the book that started it all — which is free, by the way — here.) How could I forget to tell you about the tentacular chest dongles? Before we went up to Seattle, I was told that I needed something put in me …
The Seattle Journal 2
Note: This is Part Two of probably a three-part story. You can read Part One here, and the book that started it all here. Not long before we headed up to Seattle, my wife, Sarah and her mother, Pam, organized an emergency family meeting. Our whole lives were about to turn upside down, so they figured we should get everyone …
The Seattle Journal
At the beginning of 2014 I was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Near the end of January I started chemo therapy, and four months later the cancer was completely gone. However, about four months after that it was back. And that’s where this story begins. (To read more about those initial months, though, be sure to check out my …
The Cancer Journal Part Four
(This is Part Four of The Cancer Journal. You can read Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here!) Two days passed following the PET scan. I tried to push the technician’s look out of my mind, but without much success. And so we came to Friday evening. I was driving when the doctors’ office called, and because …
The Cancer Journal Part Three
(This is Part Three of the Cancer Journal. You can find Part One here and Part Two here.) We went into treatment. Prior to starting, though, we were told the laundry list of side effects. These included, but were not limited to: Nerve Damage Heart Damage Lung Damage Severe Fatigue Demolished White Blood Cell Counts Demolished Red Blood Cell Counts …
The Cancer Journal Part Two
(This post is Part Two of The Cancer Journal. You can view Part One here.) Did I mention that Sarah broke her toe? It was late Christmas night. I was lying on the couch fighting a fever, and had finally convinced Sarah to go to bed. She assured me that she would get back up if she heard me coughing, …
The Cancer Journal
I don’t know exactly when the itching began. I do know, however, that it started inconspicuously as some mild irritation on my calves. My wife, Sarah, thought it was an allergic reaction to body wash, so we started cycling through all sorts of different soaps to get rid of it. Strangely, nothing seemed to work. The problem seemed pretty tame …
Our Healer
I stood in the shower, tears melting into the spray from the shower head on my cheeks. There was a huge lump under my arm that I had named Nebraska; my skin was on fire; I couldn’t keep food down because of my incessant coughing. And the fevers weren’t giving me any confidence in my health’s outlook, either. Or the …
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