Since I’m about to board a plane for another round of cancer check-ups in Houston, it’s a great time to rewatch this video and celebrate that I’ve been home from radiation for 4 years as of today! Woot woot!

Lately, I’ve been listening to some podcasts about the seasons of our life-fall, winter, spring and summer-and asking God what season He’s seeing me through.

It would be easy to assume that the cancer battle was winter for all of the trials and tribulation it held, but I think it was actually fall and a season of harvest. It felt, in many ways, as if we were reaping the benefits of our tribe and a strong community…from meals to monetary donations to prayers beseeching God for my healing to a flourishing walk with my Jesus still thriving today…that part of my cancer battle was life-changing and I’m pretty positive I wouldn’t change a thing about it.

And then winter came…a season when the world stopped turning for a vicious virus, my body reacted strongly to surgery and radiation and left me with some righteous scars and healing, I was turned down for surgery to help my lymphedema and fix my body and I started my now years-long journey of physical therapy to keep the effects of lymphedema to a minimum…not to mention all the emotional winter of surviving cancer and still wrestling with all the “what-ifs?”…but…if winter is here, then spring is coming.

I love anniversaries…any date I can celebrate you or me or us for just about anything done or experienced is one I love!  So, the 5 year anniversary of my cancer diagnosis coming May 22nd is big, people! Not only does it mean my survival rate waaaaay outweighs the possible return of cancer, but I also get to minimize my cancer check-ups to once a year. It means spring has arrived! A time to celebrate all the things we’ve learned about life and doing it well this side of heaven, to embrace the new friendships we’ve gained courtesy of a cancer battle and to love on our tribe that has seen us through some rough seasons. I can’t wait!

In the meantime, will you pray with us over this last winter trip? I’m excited that my Daddy is my traveling companion this round-he hasn’t been to Houston with me since I was first diagnosed in 2019! I get travel anxiety in winter, but tonight my evening devotional included John  14:27 and that is leaving my mind and heart settled: “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” He’s so good.

**Edit**  I wrote this last night and then this morning doing one of my devotionals (via an app called Lectio 365-check it out!), this scripture was used: “The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice. My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.” ‭‭Song of Solomon‬ ‭2‬:‭8‬-‭13‬

Woah, right? He’s really, truly so good.

Love well and laugh often, friends! 
Kenzie