Today is Friday and I feel really good to be alive and know that God is with me always.  Last week end I was looking at the calendar counting the weeks since my surgery.  I was shocked to realize it had only been 7 weeks and I had already been back to work for 3 weeks.  Where I work we have a floor with a lot of exercise equipment and a walking tract.  Yesterday I started walking and walked 1 1/2 miles. Today I did the same thing and Monday I intend to increase to 2 miles a day. 

God has been so good to me.  Everyone including the doctor seems to be surprised at how well I am doing.  I look just like I did before my surgery.  When I went back to the doctor a few weeks ago he was amazed.  He talked about how he had me on the table cut open doing surgery removing cancer from my lung and he said now just 3 weeks later you are standing here in front of me looking great.  He said that I was a remarkable woman so that made me feel really good especially since I had been going through so many emotions and was a little down.  But of course it was really because I had some remarkable Doctors and an awesome, loving, remarkable and  glorious Savior who was right there with them.   I am truly thankful for be fortunate enough to have had the Doctors I had.  There were so many people praying for me during my illness and surgery and God answers prayers.  I am a very fortunately woman and have so much to be thankful for.

This week I found a Christian radio station and have been listening to it every morning on my way to work and it has really been an inspiration to me and very uplifting.  Every morning I hear Charles Stanley and he is such a great teacher and minister.  One morning this week he was saying that once he asked God what was the one most important thing that he would have him know and he said God said, "How much I love you."  Wow isn't that awesome.  That made me feel so good and encouraged me so much.  My son is an alcoholic, addict and he is at this time in jail serving 120 days for a dui.  My heart hurts so much for him.  My father was an alcoholic and so was my ex husband and it hurts to see someone you love hurt the way they did but when it is your child it hurts so much more.   It took me a long time to be able to quit trying to help and to turn him over to God but with time and failure I finally reached a point where there was nothing else I could do.  Today it is so good to know that we can depend on God and his everlasting love and with him nothing can really defeat us.