This month Hope has come calling for Pancreatic Cancer patients everywhere... It is Hope for a medical break-through. Hope for early testing and detection. Hope for more effective treatments.
Hope for a Cure...
...in the form of the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act which was signed into Law on January 3, 2013.
It is Hope that not one more family struggles with this vicious disease; not one more wife, mother, husband, brother, daughter, grandpa or grandma faces the cruel bite of pancreatic cancer.
Will it happen tomorrow? No...Research takes time. But I believe with all my heart that it will happen. For research also takes money and scientists and laboratories. And the Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act offers the resources to make it so. More money to fund the scientists and clinical trials, more time in the labs to crack the grip of this deadly cancer. Mom would have given a war whoop of approval. It is the first step in the right direction. It is strength garnered from the many, the gathering up of the forces, the circling of the brilliant...in this fight it will take all to make a difference. And it is coming...
The Hope of our Hearts...
Paul knew that kind of Hope. In Ephesians he pressed the saints to hold on to it. In the midst of the mess, the hurt, the broken...Paul painted in words the Hope that we are all called to...
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you,
He has called us to Hope even as we walk the cancer road, the painful road, the grieved and broken road...
Where is Hope here? In the dark places, the hurting places...
Can Hope be found?
Yes, even here. Hope calls us, entreats us to look beyond the now into...
...the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.
~ Ephesians 1:18-19
His power is great, His Hope is the catalyst for mending the broken. And I am chief among the broken. Hope blooms fresh in Faith, bridging the gap between our now and the eternal...
A Glorious Inheritance... Unspeakable. Unimagineable. Beauty and Rest and Purpose and Wholeness that we can barely conceive...
When we weary in the journey, His Hope, this Glorious Hope, whispers to aching hearts. Look up, look around, I am here, I have always been... You are not alone. My Love stretched out arms wide for you. To give you Hope. Right where you are.
It is the Hope of our Hearts...May you be lifted up above the brokenness of life's circumstances and find His Love immeasureably able to carry you through...
Graced in Hope this day,
Love Always, Jane
2 comments:
Thank you Jane. I found this blog while looking for ways to cope with a stage 5 diagnosis. My grandmother has been fighting for the past 9 months and after chemo and radiation went in for the whipple surgery. While the team went in with a camera they discovered the cancer spread from the pancreas to many other areas of her body. They sent her home and said it will be only a matter of months. I have only skimmed the top of your blog and already have so much I can relate to. Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Dear Ember,
Thank you for your sweet note...my heart hurts for what your family is facing. Please know that you and your grandmother and family are so very much in my thoughts and prayers. Pancreatic cancer is simply a devastating diagnosis.
May you find strength in the love you share, peace in making precious memories and grace in abundance for the moments ahead.
In all things, my prayer is that God's Love falls gently this day to hold you close and shelter you safe.
You're not alone...Sending Hugs of Hope across the miles, Always, Jane
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