I still remember vividly that day I received the phone call. Standing outside on the platform of Via rail the train was late and was finally coming in. We were going to get on to ride the train to Vancouver. It was a beautiful sunny day in August of 2007. I answered my cell phone just as the train pulled up. It was mom. She had told me the news, she has breast cancer.
I don't remember her exact words, I just remember feeling like I was being sucked through a tunnel and did not know when the tunnel would end. Where was the light? Immediately I was scared and worried. What would happen to her? I thought of the chemotherapy thinking how would she survive this? Her health was not great going into cancer. How was she going to fight this? Right away I panicked inside. What was I to do. I was going onto a train with no privacy, my two children right there all excited to go on this trip. We got on the train and we had gotten to our seats and I still was trying to process all of this. I had questions, I did not know much about cancer other than it was a bad disease, and it was very difficult to fight. We were off and I was looking out the window seeing the beautiful landscape. I had not seen the landscape from a train before. Then I remembered who created all of this beauty. I knew that the God of all creation, my God. He would supply all our needs. He created the earth, He can help mom. He can help her through this. He can help us through this.
I don't remember her exact words, I just remember feeling like I was being sucked through a tunnel and did not know when the tunnel would end. Where was the light? Immediately I was scared and worried. What would happen to her? I thought of the chemotherapy thinking how would she survive this? Her health was not great going into cancer. How was she going to fight this? Right away I panicked inside. What was I to do. I was going onto a train with no privacy, my two children right there all excited to go on this trip. We got on the train and we had gotten to our seats and I still was trying to process all of this. I had questions, I did not know much about cancer other than it was a bad disease, and it was very difficult to fight. We were off and I was looking out the window seeing the beautiful landscape. I had not seen the landscape from a train before. Then I remembered who created all of this beauty. I knew that the God of all creation, my God. He would supply all our needs. He created the earth, He can help mom. He can help her through this. He can help us through this.
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