GLORY TO GOD !!!

Praise God! Praise His holy, magnificent and wonderful Name!

Yesterday I talked to the nurse from my oncologist's office around 4:30 pm. She said "Mrs. Carr, the report came in today. The results were all negative. There were no malignant cells. There is no cancer!" YEAH GOD !!!!!!

I immediately called my Tommy and told him the news. We cried together on the phone and then he prayed over the phone thanking God, thanking God for this healing. From there I walked out of the bedroom at my parents house and told my parents and Betsy and Mary the good news. We all huddled together and Daddy prayed, praising God for this answer to all our pleas! We went on over to my sister's house where I poured out my news with joy and tears, and all of them rejoicing with me! It kept going...the joy, the tears, the thanks to God on through the night. I played some songs on my sister's piano and praised God with my family all singing and rejoicing with me. I could hardly get to sleep...then I woke up at 5 am, once again, with waves of joy flooding over me. I fell back to sleep and got up around 7 and both my sisters were up, so we processed it all some more.

This is so, so big. I can't even begin to explain to you all the depth of this news. And for right now I won't go into all the details of this healing story. For now I will say, like the blind man in the New Testament, "all I know is this"...in November they looked me in the eye and said "you have metastatic bone cancer"...and now, it is gone! I hope to get copies of all the reports and scans. I want to understand more and more...but, at this point, all I know is this... I have been rescued by the hand of the Lord God of all Creation. I am FULL...FULL of gratefulness and joy...the kind that overflows, just overflows. Praise to my God, who "by His wounds" has healed me.

O dear God...how can I thank You enough? I will thank You and praise Your holy Name all the days of my life, which I believe will be long, O Lord. Thank You for Your mercy and love and healing and salvation. You are an awesome God, awesome. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You!!!!

Biopsy update

The biopsy went well today. I had kind of hoped that somehow I would bypass even having to have the biopsy at all, but the Lord is in charge of this whole thing, so I am trusting Him with each step.

The surgeon went into 2 places: one needle went into my humerus bone at the socket and they took out some bone marrow, plus some cells from the surface of the bone; the other place was a sample on the scapula, from the surface of that bone. They didn't cut anything. There were just large needle holes and 2 band-aids left when it was all done.

I did fine, or so I was told. I don't remember too much. I woke up around noon and we left by 1. I slept ALL afternoon, but started coming back to alertness around 5 or 6 pm.

They told us I should probably hear the path results on Monday. SO...the drama continues.

Last week I wrote a new song...not surprising, the main topic of the song is "waiting on the LORD." :-) So, I will wait.

In the meantime we are heading to Nashville tomorrow to continue Christmas celebrations with my family. We are looking forward to that!


Psalm 130:5 "I will wait on You, Lord, my soul shall wait; and in Your Word I will put my hope."

Tomorrow

Christmas was wonderful and will continue on Friday when I go to Tennessee to see my family there.

But...tomorrow is my biopsy. 9:00 am.

Thank you for your prayers and love and cover. The LORD is in control! Praise His holy Name, for He is my Strength and Shield and Fortress. Praise His Name.