Sunday, October 19, 2014

Did you ever get a song stuck in your head, and wonder why?



The longest week of my life was spent trying to get my scans done. I had selected Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and although they were very compassionate; they couldn't schedule me because my cancer was too undefined to assign me to a specific care group first! I had to become my own advocate and get myself reassigned back to my local ENT, who quickly got me referred to the Providence Regional Cancer System Molecular Imaging Center.On the morning of my appointment, my mother in law and I met at the address on the emailed paperwork. As we walked toward the lighted entryway at early dawn, we simultaneously recognized a friend from church approaching from our left. It was our sweet German dynamo prayer warrior friend! And, by the way, she moved away awhile ago to an island on the coast and vanpool's in to work at this cancer care place. She had no idea I would be there or what the Lord would lay on her heart. What a godsend! Instinctively, I knew she would want to pray over me and though I may have been a bit out of it (the diagnosis of cancer still feeling surreal), I welcomed her laying healing hands on me as we agreed in prayer before entering the building. Once inside, I attempted to sign in only to be redirected to the correct building down around the corner to the end... herein lies the definition of divine appointment!

Getting ready to scan, Newsboys on low,
My head still reeling from this shocking blow.
Up on the table and wrapped in a sheet,
Let's find out what I'll have to beat!
Wanting worship songs in my head you see
But words fail except for "Jesus Loves Me!"
So that's what I sing, over and over,
Like the child I am, running through clover.

The scans complete, I'm radioactive now.
48 hours to wait; what to do? and how?
People are praying in Turkey and Spain,
From coast to coast, and in between.
No sleep is fine when there's sewing to do,
Creativity and music are distractions too.
The sun came up as I laid in bed,
A new song now played in my head.

Today the call would surely come,
I could not hide, no where to run.
But yet this song, made my outlook bright,
Angels had kept their watch, all through the night.
Doors had closed to jobs and school,
Now I know why, and it's so cool!
That He loves me, this I know...
For the Bible tells me so.

*The song posted below is the one that played over in my head the morning I was to get the results of my PET/CT scan. It was going to be the best day of my life, and I was expecting a call about the extent of cancer in my body. I took comfort and joy in the song; but it wasn't' until the actual call came around 10am that I really got it... the call that confirmed the very best result I could possibly have hoped for under the circumstances...
THERE WAS NO MORE CANCER ANY WHERE ELSE, ONLY IN MY SINUS CAVITY!
It just became one of the best days of my life!

More to come...

1 comment: