Excitement!

I now have one more treatment of radiation to complete! On the home stretch for this part of the journey. I am sure that the rest of the household is excited to be home but I am not sure they are as excited as I am. I have in my hand the schedule which includes on it treatments til Friday. The lodge staff does not complete believe me that I have endured the full 25 treatments so they have called over to double check that I am finished. I am holding my breath a little, so that I am not surprised if the doctor should have me stay another week. I am counting on flying out of here tomorrow.

The tired effect of the treatments have finally caught me. It seems that I could sleep til 8:00 am, have a nap in the afternoon, and be back in bed by 8:30 pm. Although my body is becoming more and more exhausted, my mind just won't settle. I am having to learn that it is not good to "push through it", as I have a tendency to do.

So on Sunday, while Stephen came home to pick the kids up, I crawled back into bed for the rest of the morning. In the afternoon, I had to cry and smile BIG as I viewed our church service on the local TV station. It was at the congregational prayer where I am always moved to tears and this day was no exception. Once again, Stephen had to report on my progress and, as how it has been often, he was moved to having a hard time getting out the words. Over the past year, I have sat in the pew and thought that this part of the service during THIS year has to have put a lot of stress on him. How I have prayed for strength for him during these moments and wished with all my heart that he did not have to utter the words which he did. Well, this Sunday all he could say was "Only three more...... three is a very significant number in Bible.........." (there was a little more said after but that was powerful to me.

Here is why! There are 374 references to the number 3 and 67 references to three days. Here is just a few:
-Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer. Gen 40:13-
-We must take a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God, as he commands us." Exodus 8:27
-So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days. Exodus 10:22
-So they set out from the mountain of the LORD and traveled for three days. The ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them during those three days to find them a place to rest. Numbers 10:33
-"Go through the camp and tell the people, 'Get your supplies ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own.' " Joshua 1:11
-"Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish." Esther 4:16
- But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 1:17

But the best reference to "three days" is this one:
(Jesus Predicts His Death) He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. Mark 8:31

As I was looking up these references I was struck by how there is anticipation for a three day event to end followed by God's victory. It is with my whole heart that I await these three days to pass. For I know that regardless of the outcome of this journey, my victory is in God's hands. How glorious it is!