Cindy Update Blog

Good Morning:

Well it is saturday morning and even though I am supposed to be on vacation I am sitting in my office preparing for tommorow. Tommorow I will be preaching in East CRC in Strathroy. East is the church that my parents are attending since they moved to strathroy. It is also the church that my parents where married in and that my Opa helped to found. So maybe in someways (though I have never lived in Strathroy) it is like a homecoming. I look forward to leading worship tommorow and pray that the service may be filled with joy and hope.

This week we went to visit my brother Kevin and his wife Melissa in Orangeville. it was great to see both of them and spend a night at their house. Kevin and Melissa have done a great job in fixing up there house. I am amazed that my little brother was able to finish his patio. But Kevin it looks great.....and you did really amaze me.

As I said tommorow I preach in Strathroy and so this afternoon we are heading over to my parents house to spend the night with them. I think that we will also see my sister Anita and her family since they are coming to my parents tommorow.

Next week Cindy has too appointments. The first is on Tuesday as she will be seeing the Radiologist. During this appointment we will learn more about what we can expect once radiation starts. Then on Thursday Cindy will be having her 5th chemo treatment. This treatment is different than the first four ( a different drug) and some of the side effects that could happen are not very pleasant. Please keep Cindy in your prayers this week. Pray that this treatment goes well, pray that she may not be too nervous about the new medication, pray that the spirit will surround her with his grace and peace, pray that the God of all healing will touch her and heal her.

One final note...Last night as we were driving home from Kev and Melissa's we had the joy of listening to "Miley Cyrus" also know as Hannah Montana. If you don't know who this is then you don't have young girls. Anyways the song Miley was singing was called "I Miss You". She wrote this song after her grandfather had died. The first few verses and chorus of the song go like this...

You used to call me your angel
Said I was sent straight down from Heaven
You'd hold me close in your arms
I loved the way you felt so strong
I never wanted you to leave
I wanted you to stay here holding me

I miss you, I miss your smile
And I still she'd a tear every once and a while
And even though it's different now
You're still here somehow
My heart won't let you go, and I need you to know
I miss you, sha-la la la la, I miss you

You used to call me your dreamer
And now I'm livin' out my dream
Oh how I wish you could see
Everything that's happening for me
I'm thinking back on the past
It's true that time is flying by too fast

I miss you, I miss your smile
And I still she'd a tear every once and a while
And even though it's different now
You're still here somehow
My heart won't let you go, and I need you to know
I miss you, sha-la la la la, I miss you

As this song was being song our daughter Meagan said "Mom if you die of cancer i will sing this song for you." Wow, did our hearts drop....we both started to cry......we don't always realize what are children are thinking, or how this dreadful disease is affecting them.....but when our daughter said those words we realized how they think and that it does affect them deeply. Our children are young, and I don't know why they have to go through this...At times I am mad at God for this....and I get angry....and I say the words of Habbakuk "How long oh Lord must I call for help, but you do not listen"....Please pray for our children, pray for their little hearts, for their emotional well being...Pray that Meagan, Nicole and Sarah will not have to sing this song for a long long time. Pray that they be filled with Joy...laughter...innocence...and God's spirit.


Tommorow I am preaching about joy....Paul's Words say "Rejoice in the Lord always, again I will say rejoice"....I hope that tommorow the joy we have in our hearts because of Jesus will shine....and that our family will be able to see the joy of Jesus....

This was hard to write....

Stephen