LIFE AT 65 - SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS

This weekend is a bike ride that after tomorrow, I will have done for 5 years.  Hard to believe its been 5 years, but rode the FIRST one in 2012, and it was a very cold Sunday in October, there was a wind chill, and of course that is multiplied because you are creating wind when you ride.  It was also only 10 weeks since my last radiation treatment.  Most people at this point would wonder WHY I was doing it that soon after treatments.  Honestly, It was a desire to possibly help someone who might need encouragement.  Here it is, not 2016 and Im doing the 5th ride.  Jerseys are different, the survivor shirts that we who have gone thru the ugliness of c, and lived, get one, they are a different color, water bottle is a repeat color, but the ONE constant is a desire of the people in charge, and the riders, volunteers, corporate sponsors, all have ONE goal, and that is we want to see cancer wiped off the planet.  My desire is still the same, to try to be an encouragement to someone that might need it.  Im so blessed in that God chose to heal me.   I think of those words, "God healed me", and it blows me away.  God actually chose me, to be healed.  This blows me away.  I know people who have had cancer in one form or another for years, and are still fighting it.  Ive known others who had it for a very short time, and have gone on to meet Jesus face to face.  In some respects this makes me very sad to know that Ive lost friends while Im still around.  It makes me sad when I think about it, to think of others who are still fighting and Im not.

I had occasion tonight to go to part of the "event weekend" at PTC, and hundreds if not thousands of people crowding the Chesterfield Amphitheater grounds eating, joking walking around and all with a common cause.  There were probably close to 100 of us wearing purple shirts that say that we are "Living Proof".  Yes I am living proof of several things.  FIRST that God is still in the healing business.  2ND that Im 65, and am  still going after going thru all the c treatments.  I looked around at the survivors and some could barely walk, at least one had a similar c to me, and barely had a voice, yet he was still upright, others were still fighting.  Please make NO mistake, it is a fight.  Treatments are NO joke.  They make you sick, some people dont react well to them at all, some are sicker than the c makes you, others fight thru it and go on with life.  Others, like me, were just incredibly blessed and really had no issues.

WHY am I writing this tonight.  I guess I was feeling a bit nostalgic, and a LOT blessed.  These days OLD age sometimes makes my bones creak.  LOL  I have pains that can be a bit weird, but I KNOW beyond any doubt that I was healed of this insipid disease.  THAT is another reason that I ride this benefit ride.  Really 20 miles is not a big deal when it come to trying to bless someone.

If any of you feel the urge to pray for me tomorrow between 930 and about 1230, I would greatly appreciate it.  If you dont, that is fine too.  While you are doing that, please count YOUR blessings and see what God has done in your life.   Did you maybe miss out on an accident by being "delayed" at some point?  Have you been healed of something?  Have you NOT been sick in a long time?  These are ALL blessings.  COUNT them, and think of someone that is not as fortunate as you are.  IF you feel so inclined to donate to Pedal The Cause, I will include a link on here.  IF you dont feel so inclined that is fine too, just pray for those who cannot, or perhaps dont know Jesus and know that they can call on HIS name and be healed.

Love to all of you that read this.

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