A Penny For My Thoughts

Today, I was given a birthday card from my son, it was beautiful and sweet but it's not my birthday. Inside the card..was written: "You began telling what you were called to say 3 years ago today." ......
The card was a birthday celebration of my blog.
I started blogging 3 years ago, today, after coming out of a second stage 4 cancer and becoming a cancer advocate with The Lance Armstrong Foundation. Typing out my thoughts, opinions or posting a celebration became my way of fighting cancer back. A way to journal my new life of "Thriving cancer", not just surviving. My blog became snapshots of who I had become after the cancers and expressions of who I dream to be. I'm not sure my thoughts hold any real value to anyone other than me but they're all I really own and they're all I can really have any control over. So maybe a penny for my thoughts is asking too much but to have the opportunity to share hope and joy for "Life after cancer", is priceless!

Freedom

The absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action.

We have been blessed with freedom but it did not come to us without costing someone something. Many lives were the price for us to live with choices and free will. Today, We celebrate our Independence as we should but let us also remember all those who are in bondage. There are more slaves today than ever in the history of mankind.

http://www.philip-cameron.org/

http://www.thea21campaign.org/

We can't do everything, but we can do something.

Moving Forward

Forward Conference 2010, Atlanta, Ga.

Speakers were Jim Caviezel , Steven Furtick, Christine Caine, Jentezen Franklin, Reggie Dabbs, Judath Smith; Praise & Worship was led by Israel Houghton, Planetshakers, Third Day and The Free Chapel Band.

If your not moving forward, you're either standing still and going nowhere fast or you are living life in reverse and life was never meant to be lived in that direction.

You will never step into God's purpose for your life except that you continue moving forth. Don't gather up the broken pieces lay scattered amongst the ruins, leave them.... you'll find your better off without them. As we walk on, God will heal the wounds and restoration will come.

Destiny and purpose is waiting your arrival with great anticipation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmEV-hS-kUI

The 4th Annual Chattanooga Dragon Boat Festival & USDBF Club Crew National Championships, benefiting T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital Foundation, will feature local festival teams in their own race and National club crew teams battling it out for best in Nation from July 23-25, 2010.

Official count is 62 festival teams for Chattanooga Dragon Boat Festival.This year Chattanooga welcomes local festival teams and National club crew teams from all over the U.S. racing for a piece of the $10,000 prize money and to compete at World Club Crew Championships in Hong Kong in 2012.

Our book, "Reaching for Recovery" will be launched at the race.

In the book, we as breast cancer survivor dragon boaters share our stories of surviving breast cancer and our love of the sport of dragon boating. I was honored to have taken part of this awesome work. Stay tuned for more info on where you can pick up a copy of the book.

Today is "National cancer Survivor's Day"

Celebrating Surviving! Celebrating Thriving!

Memorial Day

"To Live in the Hearts of Those You Leave Behind is not to Die" - Robert Orr

Reflecting on Memorial Day.......

To all who have served and serve,

Thank You!!

Paddling "Survivor Style"

Paddling "Survivor Style" with Lynn Lane and some of the survivors from 'Voices of Survivors' (Houston Chapter).







We are determined to THRIVE, not just survive!