Jacque and I are heading to Cancer Treatment Center of America in Illinois today.  We try to think of it as vacation time.  I am adding some more of my thoughts on this entry.

Thank you for all the prayerful comments.  Your prayers keep me strong.

I am your friend, you can come to me.

Cry if you want, it might help you see

That strength alone is not what makes you strong.

But friends to hold you in their hearts

That share your tragedy.

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I’ll never be the same

I’m forever changed

And yet I don’t quite know

Exactly where I’ll go.

I feel so all alone

Any way right or wrong

I won’t take my love

Down a road so rough

I’m protecting them  [end]

[Thoughts]

I must accept life as a gift.

Anything good was given to me.

One must leave a piece of himself

With every task he performs.

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Can you see me when you close your eyes?

I am with you.  Do you realize

I will never leave you all the days of our lives.

Can you hear me when your world is still?

Listen for me.  I will never leave you.

Can you feel me when you’re all alone?

I touch your soul.

When no one is there, open your heart

And I will care.  I’ll be with you always.

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I wish that I could do the things

I used to do without a thought

Of who I was or would become.

But as I aged and life grew up

My life was changed in many ways

And now my day is not my own.

My day is planned, my schedule made.

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I know that it must be OK

To take more than you give.

It happened to be just that way

When I began to live….

                                                On borrowed socks.

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If I told you that I love you

Would you know it any

More than you do?

If I told you the sky was yours

Would it be anything

Less than blue?

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Here are a few kid pictures.

We went to the zoo and it gives a whole new meaning of "my little chicks"....

Ben and Ava figured out how to have monkey feet after watching Curious George.

We had a little fall carrot cake party.

I can't figure out how to post this picture of Ava in her flower girl dress right side up.

But I couldn't resist.