Comments on: On Cancer, Declining Chemotherapy, Healing, and Future Plans https://anitamathias.com/2015/08/03/on-cancer-declining-chemotherapy-healing-and-future-plans/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Mon, 10 Aug 2015 23:01:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/08/03/on-cancer-declining-chemotherapy-healing-and-future-plans/#comment-63271 Mon, 10 Aug 2015 23:01:45 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64653#comment-63271 Jeff, thank you so much for your kind words. I really appreciate them. Thank you.
I love the extract from Peter Barton too!
Blessings,
Anita

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/08/03/on-cancer-declining-chemotherapy-healing-and-future-plans/#comment-63270 Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:59:08 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64653#comment-63270 In reply to Sheridan Voysey.

Thank you Sheridan, and thanks for visiting 🙂

]]> By: Jeff Payne https://anitamathias.com/2015/08/03/on-cancer-declining-chemotherapy-healing-and-future-plans/#comment-63267 Sat, 08 Aug 2015 02:15:40 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64653#comment-63267 Anita, I am so glad to get your update! I have thought of you often as well as prayed for you. I praise God for your good health report.

I recall a book I have read many times over the years titled, Not Fade Away, A Short Life Well Lived. It’s written by Peter Barton who decided to share in writing his journey with cancer as a legacy for his children. Peter said, “I began thinking less about what cancer was doing TO me and more about what it was doing FOR me. And I realized something wonderful. Cancer was giving me the opportunity to live more attentively, more wholly in the moment. It was letting me be as free and focused on the present. I promised myself I wouldn’t have a bad day for the rest of my life. If someone were wasting my time, I’d excuse myself and walk away. If a situation bothered me or refused to get resolved, I’d shrug and move on. I’d squander no energy on petty annoyances, poison no minutes with useless regret. I’d play music at any hour of the day or night. I’d make a point of noticing the smell of the air, the shifting light in the mountains.”

Anita, I am so grateful for you. I am moved by your writing. You express yourself, your thoughts, and your feelings in words that are compelling, fresh, and reflective. When Jesus said, “Follow me and I will make you become something.” you have showed us your journey and what that looks like to you. It is transparent, personal, alive, and it is appreciated. Thank you.

Most grateful,
Jeff

]]> By: Sheridan Voysey https://anitamathias.com/2015/08/03/on-cancer-declining-chemotherapy-healing-and-future-plans/#comment-63266 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 11:34:48 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64653#comment-63266 This is very good news, Anita. Praise God, and welcome back.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/08/03/on-cancer-declining-chemotherapy-healing-and-future-plans/#comment-63264 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 17:57:16 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64653#comment-63264 In reply to Andrea.

Wow, thank you, Andrea. I am moved and touched by your words 🙂 Anita

]]> By: Andrea https://anitamathias.com/2015/08/03/on-cancer-declining-chemotherapy-healing-and-future-plans/#comment-63263 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 17:42:59 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64653#comment-63263 “At my check-up on June 19th, the colonoscopy, blood tests and chest/abdomen/pelvis scan showed no evidence of disease.” Wow! Praising God for this report!

I am both blessed by your writing and love who you are! Thank you for letting us join you on this journey. May God continue to lead you on a blessed path of writing that is an authentic expression of Himself through you.

With love,

Andrea

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/08/03/on-cancer-declining-chemotherapy-healing-and-future-plans/#comment-63261 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 12:54:15 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64653#comment-63261 In reply to Andy.

Andy, thank you!

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2015/08/03/on-cancer-declining-chemotherapy-healing-and-future-plans/#comment-63260 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 12:53:37 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64653#comment-63260 In reply to Rajagopal.

Thank you so much for your good wishes, Rajagopal!

]]> By: Rajagopal https://anitamathias.com/2015/08/03/on-cancer-declining-chemotherapy-healing-and-future-plans/#comment-63259 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 12:28:42 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64653#comment-63259 You will continue to be blessed by Lord of the cells, as he has already held your hand through the trial and now equipped you with right advice on post surgery care and recovery. As I was just a few lines into your post, I just wanted to stop reading and suggest that you go fully green in your diet topped up with exercise, and, on reading further after snuffing out my impatience, I found the green prescriptions from your medico sister, ‘fishy’ parts still remaining. Keep it if it is part of the prescription. Prayer is another form of walking, walking the talk with god, so let brisk walking on physical and mental planes continue.. Godspeed, Anita…

]]> By: Andy https://anitamathias.com/2015/08/03/on-cancer-declining-chemotherapy-healing-and-future-plans/#comment-63258 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 11:18:08 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=64653#comment-63258 Dear Anita, it is so good to read another blog from you. Welcome back indeed.

I think it is so important that you refuse to be passive regarding your own health. There is so much pressure to be that way and your words are are a great encouragement to be active. I forwarded them to my wife who is going through a series of investigations not knowing what the outcome will be. I’m sure she will be encouraged.

I am certain your blog is a calling. I thank God for it, and you.

Every blessing.

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