Today I went by to pick up one of my prayer shawl friends who has recently been in the hospital with pneumonia. She e-mailed the group that she felt too shaky to drive yet, so I offered to pick her up as she lives quite nearby.
When I asked her how she was feeling, tears welled up in her eyes. The cancer that was confined to the liver has now spread to her lungs. She is taking chemo for pain control, but there is nothing that can be done for her beyond that. She does not know if she has weeks or months and does not want to know. She says that nobody but God knows when her time will be and she will leave it at that.
So, I pray for peace for her and peace for those of us who will miss her when God calls her home.
Whenever that shall be.
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Prayers for her, and strength for you as you walk with her through the end of her life. Given recent events of which we are both aware, there is some measure of gift in knowing what's in one's future, so that everything that needs to be said can be said, that everybody who needs to be part of the process gets to be that part, but it certainly doesn't make it easier to bear.
Prayers for peace and comfort for your friend, her family and each of the friends who are going to walk with her in this part of her journey.
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