Out of Surgery

I am a friend of Sandy's & she asked me to update her blog. Probably a bad idea to share her password with me! ;-)

Sandy is out of surgery. Things went as well as they expected. From what they can tell, the cancer was as they thought it would be. The pathology report was sent off and will come back in a week or so to be certain. She is in recovery and then John will be able to go back and see her. She will be home tomorrow.

We, her "pink ladies" came this morning before she went back. We came wearing our pink hair with our pink clothes. As we prepared this morning in all this pink, bearing gifts of food and clothes and quilts and more food (we are Baptist, we know how to do food!) I was overcome with thoughts of so much sadness. No matter how much PINK we put on, no matter how many gifts we bring, we can't REALLY make things better. This is not a road we want our friend to be walking. This is not the club we want to be a part of. CANCER is not something we want to understand.

But God...

This verse played over and over in my mind from Psalms.

You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.

We know that each tear that falls, He holds. We know that He is ok with us being sad or mad, He loves Sandy more than any of us for sure!

Sandy has a long road, this is simply the beginning. And we know that God has written her story. We are thankful to be able to be a part of it, even in our sadness.