In Christ Alone our Hope is Found

Business first: So, this is week 6 of memorizing. How's it going ladies? I am struggling a little. I will persevere! Philipians 2:10,11 So that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth. and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. __________________________________________________________________________________ Pretty rambly.... Just working it out in my mind.... Today, I took Micah in for his 3 month check up. His Doctor is a love and I was so thankful to see her. She has a little girl, who is about a week younger than Grace. She went on mat leave and then I have just missed her the last few times. She has been on holidays or away. So we haven't had an appointment with her for about 1 and half years. It's strange how fast time has gone. Micah is in great health as far as we can tell. He is dependent on a puffer, but that is it. That is pretty good considering! She was very pl...

Everyone who knows me, knows that I love family pictures. Having my family documented to keep forever makes me happy. It also is extra special because we are coming up to the 4 year mark of Micah's diagnoses and he is here with us to be in the pictures. What a special blessing that is. I often feel relieved to have them done. It means that we have captured Micah the way he is right now, so if something happens in the next few months, we have him in beautiful pictures, that will be here with us for the years to come. I have many, many pics put in a drop box for me to look through and pick. Sooooo, I am going to start weeding through them., by putting them on my blog. So this time I am going to do Grace. I am going to put my favourite few up and then look at my blog tomorrow with fresh eyes and pick the one I want to go on the wall. It is a major process people! (o; I love the 4rth one. It is her princess look. But the other ones, show different sides of her. I also like the brig...

It's been a rough week emotionally. A young girl that we did treatment with the first time passed away yesterday. Our hearts are broken for the Norbury family. It also hurts us on a different level because cancer isn't so far from our minds.   The last few weeks, this blog has been so serious with so much writing. It's time for some pictures just for fun. I haven't been taking many pics lately. That is a good sign. It means I am relaxed and secure with where we are in regards to Micah. I am not trying to capture every single moment of every single day, "just in case." I am thankful! They are mostly of Grace! (O: Siah and his cousin and friend Keagan! My new favourite picture!   She is concentrating so hard to get the lid on! Her new love! (o: Micah's self taken pic! Bad quality pic, but this is so Siah. Playing baseball in his underwear after his bath! My sister has a little guy named Jack. Her husband is away for a few weeks during the week f...

Good Day! It is Monday already! These weeks are going so fast! (o: I have to be honest and say that I have been struggling with my memory work. I am sure that it is all discipline. It is a matter of just doing it. This weeks memory verse is Psalm 56:3,4 When I am afraid, I put my trust in You. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? This is one of my favourite verses ever! This one is in a Steve Green song that Micah and I often listened to on the the way to hospital during his first year of his treatment. It was/is precious to us.

So here I am on the evening of a clear scan report. We have had our hugs, tears, and smiles and thanked the Lord. Pizza has been eaten and surgary pop has been drunk. We just read our book about the Underground Railroad and the kids are tucked in. Natalie is sleeping on a mattress on Siah's floor, just for fun, because it's Friday night. Micah is tucked into our bed with my ipod, listening to an Odyssey. (He doesn't sleep there, he just likes falling asleep in there sometimes. It's warm and soft and he likes the comfort it brings him.) Ken has gone to the grocery store to grab a few things. He just needed to get out for a little quiet. Josh is away at a Junior Young People's party and here I sit in the beautiful peace and quiet. I feel the need to write, but don't know what to say. I am truly overwhelmed that God has blessed us in this way again. It feels like a whole new life has been given to us. The further we get away from cancer, the more precious each cl...

Dear People, Micah's scan is clear.  We are overjoyed and in awe of God's beautiful gifts.  I have no other words. In Him, Belinda

I am sorry ladies, it has been a strange week for me.  Here is the next verse. I love this one. It gives you the option of learning vs 8 with it. Ps 62:5-7   5 For God alone, O  my soul, wait in silence,    for my hope is from him. 6  He only is my rock and my salvation,    my fortress; I shall not be shaken. 7 On God rests my  salvation and my glory;    my mighty rock,  my refuge is God. Have a good week.

Micah's scan went well. It always does! The lady who did the scan was new to us. Sometimes the people that do the scans are familiar to us. She asked Micah if he had ever had a scan before. We both nodded our heads emphatically. At that point I started to go out. Micah can handle these scans without a problem. It is like riding his bike down the street. He has grown up so much. When we first started, I would put on a lead apron, hold his hand or touch his leg or head, and help him with holding his breath. As I was walking out, I heard her telling him about the loud noises and that a man will be talking to him over a speaker. She told him that if he couldn't hold his breath long enough to just let it out..... Micah listened intently. He was being so gracious and I was so proud of him. I know he just wanted to tell her that he knows, he has had like 60 of them. He can hold his breath, he is not scared and that he is 9! I know this is how he is supposed to act. But it is one...

I have written so many half blog posts in the last few days. None of them really make sense or are cohesive. They are just ramblings. I will try again. Tomorrow is scan day. Micah has a port flush at 5 and the scan is at 5:30. We will most likely be out of there by 5:45. It is all very quick and routine. For us this was to be just a formality. Micah had an XRAY a month ago telling us that things look fine. But the doubts and the fears have not stayed away. Hearing that our friend Jesse's cancer has come back the third time, has shaken us to the core. We hurt so much for her and her family. Cancer is devastating, whether it hits old or young. But because of our experiences, when a child has cancer it affects us deeply. We know the pain and at times the anger, hopelessness, helplessness and sorrow involved, especially when it is the 2nd or 3rd time. Today we had family pictures. I love family pictures. I love professional pictures of my kiddies. I don't so much love pictu...

Excuse my colors... Just in the mood! I read every night before I go to bed. I read all sorts of different kinds of books. I just read God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew. It is the 2nd time I have read it. I am not ready for the book to be done. I would keep reading if it went for another 600 pages. WOWOWOOWWOWOWOWOW , is all I have to say. It is the story of a  dutchman  who was a soldier and struggled in his Christian walk. God brought him back to Himself and he became a Bible smuggler behind the iron curtain. The Los Angeles Times wrote :  "Tension builds page by page in this remarkable true document..... more thrilling than a spy story with its numerous near escapes and mounting climaxes of danger." OK, that may be true, but it misses the  WHOLE  point. It is a story of trusting God in every circumstance, for every thing, even things that seem humanly  impossible. I think you should read this book. Andrew truly is an example we should follow. ...

Hey "Memory People", I didn't hear very many progress reports last week! We all want to know how each other did, it is part of holding each other accountable! Tell us even if you didn't learn it well! It is a process to make something a habit! (O: So this week, I didn't do too badly. It still is not part of my daily routine. My goal this week is to do 10 minutes a day. I don't like the cramming thing. It is like teaching my kids Sunday school memory work on Saturday night. That simply doesn't work and they don't know it as well either. So we do memory work with devotions every morning.  I am going to start doing it that way for myself too! I am kind of happy about this next one. I learned Romans 12 in Junior Young Peoples when Arie Van Eyk and Dave Pronk were my teachers! It is a passage I still mostly know. So I will refresh this one and review that last 2  verses we have learned. Roman 12:1 and 2.    1  I appeal to you therefore, brothers...

I know there are people who are quite new to my blog and to Micah`s story. Just so you know..... I started sending out Micah updates the first week of Nov 2007, the week we found his tumor on the couch. I would send emails out at least once a week, sometimes more depending on how things were. I think there are over 150 of them. There must be way more than that though! I am not exaggerating when I say that each update reached over a thousand computers, then went on from there by people sharing the content of the updates through conversation and prayers. It was a beautiful thing. I don`t do updates often now. I just write here. But there are still those people who don`t do blogs or facebook and would like to know how Micah is doing. So I usually just do them around scan time now. Even though people who read my blog and get my updates by email overlap in a big way, I like to post my email updates here too, so that I can keep a record of them. (o: Here is my update that I send toda...