Thank you my friends for all you have done. You have comforted me through pain and tears and sobbing in the night. You prayed with me and tended to me when all I wanted to do was hide, hide from my pain, and hide from the voices around me who made the word cancer real to me. Thank you my friends for teaching me that cancer was just a word and by writing Jesus over it, became hope for me. Thank you my friends for sensing my fears and giving me words of encouragement when the world was falling in around me. Thank you my family for sticking by me and suffering with me when I was scared and unsure of the future. You were there to comfort me and hold my hand and love me to your greatest degree, and yes, I knew it. Thank you for helping me to make decision after decision, they never seemed to end. Thank you my doctor, who was confident, real and caring. I prayed for you. Did you know? I prayed earnestly that God would direct your path and He did. You were wonderful, thoughtful, and professional, and I thank you for allowing God to use you. Thank you my hospital, for easing my pain and pressing me on. Thank you for soothing my wounds, for crying with me when I was in pain, for waiting on me hand and foot. Yes, thank you for cheering me when I progressed and healed. Thank you my Lord for hearing me when I cried. You erased all my fears and gave me your word to give me hope. You comforted me in the quiet of the night and gave me faith that I would be in our arms at all times. You assured me that no matter what the future held, I knew who held the future. So my Lord, I thank you for friends, family, doctors, hospitals and most of all hope.
