Run This Race...

I CAN'T stop listening...
(I've given up trying!)
To Smokie Norful's CD...
"Life Changing".

It's an older one,
His second I believe...
ADD it to your collection!
(You can,"thank me", after you listen to it!)

There's this song...
"Run 'Til I Finish"...

And,
Since being diagnosed with Breast Cancer,
In November 2009...
That's JUST what I've been doing...

Run This Race...

PRAYING my voice WILL be HEARD,
So, I can HELP other sisters...
Diagnosed with this disease,

RUN THEIRS!

Or at the very LEAST navigate through,
This maze...

Life Changing...
(Smokie had it right!)

Is just what happens!
When you are diagnosed...

BUT...

After the TEARS...
After Treatment...
What are you going to do?

What's Left?

From my experience...

A BETTER ME!

You WILL be a BETTER you!

More OPEN to Life...
And, ALL it's possibilities!

If you hadn't before...

NOW is the TIME!

To LIVE!

I Remember...

While going through treatment...

I  would hear this voice...
It sounds like my Mom...
(God rest her soul!)

Telling Me...
Go...Run...

Make your Journey...MATTER!
Make this experience...COUNT!

We were taught,

TO SHARE...Whatever we had.

No matter how LITTLE...

OR,

How MUCH...

She would say,"God WILL Bless Those"
That BLESS others...

So...Helping...Sisters...

Who will take this JOURNEY...
Behind Me.
Is in my DNA...

Letting them KNOW,

You CAN beat this!

Is what I've learned.

THAT...

It ain't over...
Until the "fat lady" sings...

So, until you hear that chorus...

Run...Your Race!

The song ends with...

"I've made up my mind"...

"I don't have much time"...

"I'm going to RUN 'Til I FINISH"!

I COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER!

Until Next Time...