Quote of the Day: “Thank God– every morning when you get up– that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundred virtues which the idle never know.” Charles Kingsley
One thing I’ve noticed and I am grateful for is that when you have weathered a crisis in your life, people will confide in you in ways they never would have before. Last week, a young, darling girl on my summer tennis team stopped me at the Sportsmall and asked if she could talk to me for a minute. She confided in me that she had received a “call back” on her mammogram and they would be performing a biopsy the following day but they were afraid that it was cancerous. She had a family history of breast cancer, her mother and aunt had passed away from the disease, in fact, her mother just six years ago. At 47, her biggest concern was telling her children, who had lost their father to colon cancer just two years earlier. I love that it gave me the chance to really think about her and pray for her and I will testify to you that prayers are felt. I was so aware that people were praying for me and sometimes it’s the only thing we can do it help and it does work- it’s a comfort to the worried and grieving. Two days later, she received such great news, the tumor was not cancerous but it was very lucky that they had found it because something pre-cancerous is going on in her breasts. Now they can do what they need to prevent cancer from forming. I felt so happy for her. Even though, it brought back feelings of how I so yearned to receive a negative tumor diagnosis, I wasn’t envious nor did I feel cheated. I just felt grateful that one less person would have to go through cancer treatment.
We live in hard times, there’s such negativity on the forefront. Mostly we’re exposed to the gloom and doom of the future and since this is the only time I’ve lived, I don’t have anything to compare it with, but I don’t want to feel that the future will be worst than the past. I know, without a doubt, that we have the ability to solve the world’s problems, if we work together. We can control this horrendous debt, we can be good to our earth, taking care to leave it unscarred for the next generations but it won’t happen if people are stubborn, vengeful and refuse to work together for the good of all. I think, people need to look at the world from another’s shoes because the opposite breeds divisiveness and hatred.
Last week in St. George, running the Snow Canyon Half-Marathon with Sue, Joanie, Melissa and Cokie
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