There are times...

"There are times when you are awake and sense the coming day hovering just beyond the edge of the world. Your heartbeat quickens anticipating the blinding brightness of it, grasping its awesome possibility. You await the first rays of dawn, feeling that God must have whispered something in your ear just before you roused from sleep. You can hear the voice, not quite the words, but you feel, you know with everything in you, that a promise has been made. The dark night of your soul is fading and dawn will soon arrive." Lisa Wingate

i like this...God's promises are so real.

what?...six days have passed?

Yikes - it has been six days since I have posted on my "daily sharing".  Here are a couple of the cards that I have made in my "quiet" time.

Hope....

"Hope is a word I love.  Hope keeps you going when things don't look so good.  Hope is the only thing left at times.  I love it that God tells us not to lose hope.  If we keep hope alive in our souls, we shall reap in due season.  When we can't see past the darkness, we can always have hope.  Isn't it great to know that there are seasons to our lives?" Terry Jones POINT OF GRACE

During our season of life this past year we couldn't see past the darkness as we stood by watching our son, Eric fight his battle with Lymphoma.  An entire year of darkness...but the one thing we clung to was HOPE.
Hope that we would be able to read the news that he just posted.

 Sunday, February 27, 2011


Released from the transplant team.

Friday, Feb 25th I was officially released from the Bone Marrow Transplant Team and referred back to the care of my Oncologist who I will see on Monday. Will also be off the main steroid drug by next Wed. Still on home IV's for one hour per day so it will be at least another week or two before they pull the central line from chest. I feel great, with basically a clean bill of health! (yet still closely monitored).

Posted by Eric Dover at 1:01 PM

All we can say is... thank You Father!

 

By the way...want to see what bone marrow looks like?
 Here is a picture.

Grandma Camp...marshmallows on a stick

Just in case you can't tell

these cute little invitations are supposed to be marshmallows on a stick. I have to figure out how to successfully mail them.  It is always a treat to have any of our grandkids come,,,,so we plan great adventures.  Maybe I will share with you some of the fun things we are going to make at Grandma Camp.

Grab a pen ....scribble a note to someone today. Let them know you are thinking of them.




Need some notecards?  I would be happy to make some for you.

 

email me at bsdover@msn.com

In Hot Water...literally










I started water for a bubble bath....then decided to go take a quick look at the computer while the tub was filling.  I have great concentration powers so got engrossed in something that the computer had to offer.  I have no idea how much time had gone by before I remembered the filling tub but it felt like a LOT.  I leapt up and with Sam barking wildly behind me ,flew down the hall, fully expecting to slosh through water and bubbles to get the water turned off.  The bathroom was a SIGHT TO BEHOLD.   The water was almost to the top of the tub...the bubbles almost the to window sill.  There was no more hot water but as  I allowed myself to sink to my neck in that glorious smelling, hot bath water, I couldn't help but think how much HOT WATER I would have been in if Ihadn't made it back to the tub before it overflowed....now that would be real HOT WATER!  There probably is a moral to this story - a life lesson to be learned - maybe something about sticking with a task,  or not succombing to the distractions life has to offer - or live in the moment.  At any rate, I "enjoyed the moment" in that hot water.

thinking of you card