Prologue

In April 2015, I received the first big curve ball of my life.  A diagnosis that sent my mind reeling, my faith questioning, and my health changing.  At 36, my health was fully intact and strong.  I had just completed a 10K run and was planning my next one.  Cancer was the farthest thing from my mind.  This was one of those moments that forever changed me.  The cliche is that life happens while we are busy making other plans.  I was busy with my own plans for my life and spent many months lamenting the loss of those plans.  It is in retrospect that I can see now how life was unfolding for me during this time.

Perhaps I should have started this blog then as a way to capture in real time my thoughts and emotions through the journey.  However, for me, it is in reflection that I am able to see where I was, where I have been, and where I am now.  This blog will trace that journey.  It will be a way for me to share my own experience and what it taught me.

As a deeply private person, I will share thoughts and experiences that I have previously kept private.  However, I hope that in sharing, I will grow through my own reflection.  Somewhere in the back of my mind is the hope that someone else will pick up this blog and that it will help them along their journey.  With that said, each journey is individual and different.  I would never think that my journey would be a cookie cutter for someone else, but I have to believe that there may be similarities along the way.

The truth is, the journey is what it is for me.  It is mine to own and mine to share.  So, today, with this first post, I begin that process of sharing.