Happy, Thankful and Rested

Late last night, before I went to bed, I felt really really tired, emotionally and mentally, more than physically. I was at the hospital with my sister and my mother from 9 AM to 5:30 PM. It was mom's first session of a series of scheduled chemo therapy, that is for this year 2010. Way back in 2007, we were in the same hospital, the same chemo unit and the same bed, doing the same familiar procedures.

I was ready to sleep, with my eyes closed, lying flat on my back, silent, not moving a twitch, just thinking . . . thinking.

Thank you Mamu is undergoing chemo therapy . . .
Thank you for the these medical technologies . . .
Thank you for these latest medicines that give healing . . .
Thank you for able doctors and nurses and hospital staff . . .
Thank you for this hospital that offers these medical treatments in our country . . .
Thank you for the capability to avail of these services in various ways possible . . .
Thank you for government benefits that help in a way . . .
Thank you for family and friends that show their support in their own personal way . . .
Thank you for Mamu's fellow community members that pray for her and visit her . . .
Thank you for Mamu's strength physically, emotionally and mentally to undergo treatment . . .
Thank you for the cheaper and faster methods of communication . . .

Thank you for a big God that handles our big problems . . .



Then, I fell asleep like a baby.

Peace Prayers, Peace Be with You

Prayer for Inner Peace

Dear Lord, sometimes we become nervous, upset, depressed and anxious.We need calm control to be able to think our problems through, successfully. Give us victory over our weaknesses and difficulties and always let your peace rule in our hearts.

Drive from our minds, Lord, the dark, old shadows of fear, resentment and negative thinking, and recreate us into new persons with deep inner power. All these we ask through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.