Long time coming...

So it has been a year since my last post... a very eventful and fruitful year... and one that has by no means been uneventful from a health and growth perspective! I have probably been running away from something; but not exactly sure what. I can share more on that front later, but in the meantime, here is a short update. Last night, my sister told me of a John Piper excerpt called "Don't Waste Your Cancer". Each of the take-aways resonate loudly within me:

1) We waste our cancer if we don't hear in our own groanings the hope-filled labor pains of a fallen world.

2) We waste our cancer if we do not believe it is designed for us by God.

3) We waste our cancer if we believe it is a curse and not a gift.

4) We waste our cancer if we seek comfort from our odds rather than from God.

5) We waste our cancer if we refuse to think about death.

6) We waste our cancer if we think that `beating' cancer means staying alive rather than cherishing Christ.

7) We waste our cancer if we spend too much time reading about cancer and not enough time reading about God.

8) We waste our cancer if we let it drive us into solitude instead of deepen our relationships with manifest affection.

9) We waste our cancer if we grieve as those who have no hope.

10) We waste our cancer if we treat sin as casually as before.

11) We waste our cancer if we fail to use it as a means of witness to the truth and glory of Christ.