a Valentine's Day proposal

Quit freaking out - I'm not talking about me. I have a proposal for you. A prayerful proposal, that is.

Most of you Team Tricia peeps know that Mondays are usually my mom's chemo days. And, since she is currently not getting any chemotherapy treatments (praise the Lord!), you know that prayer is our chemo. So here's my proposal. I propose that every Monday still be Mom's "chemo" day. In other words, pray for Tricia on Mondays! I know that many of you try to pray for her every day (and I am certainly not suggesting that you stop!), but I also know that life gets busy and prayer lists get long. It's sometimes hard to keep up with all the prayer requests. So I'm asking that Mondays be the day you remember to pray for my mom. 

It's been such a blessing to know that so many people are praying for us. If your family has gone through a time like mine has these last past few months, you know that prayers don't always come easily. Sometimes we just don't feel like praying. Sometimes we feel like we've said all we can think to say. It's during those times that knowing that others are praying is such a comfort to us. During Mom's last scan, I was sitting in the waiting room by myself waiting for her to come back, and I was a nervous wreck. After praying the same prayer over and over again all morning long, I finally decided to let myself relax. And I was only able to do that because I knew others were praying for me (as in, praying the prayer I wanted to pray, not actually praying for me specifically, though I know that was happening, too!). And of course on the day of Mom's surgery last September, I don't think anyone in my family would have been able to breathe all day long if we hadn't known that so many people were praying for her. Because of everyone's prayers, not only were we able to breathe during those long eight and a half hours, we were also able to eat, visit with friends, and laugh!  (Good thing about the eating part, too, because there was a lot of good food brought to us in the waiting room that day.) 

Many of us will still be praying daily for my mom, but I would love to know that there are some extra prayers being sent up on Mondays (I mean, seriously, who doesn't need a little extra prayers on Monday??). I would love for Mom to be covered in prayer every Monday for her weekly "treatment."

And this what can be on your Monday prayer list . . . 

• April 18th is Mom's next CT scan. This will be a huge test as Mom will have gone three months with no treatment (at least not the conventional kind). Pray for another clean scan!
• Complete physical healing for my mom. Healing from surgery, healing from chemo, healing from breast cancer, healing from pancreatic cancer.
• Complete spiritual healing for my mom and our entire family.
• More Jesus! Whatever the future holds, we want it to include more of HIM. We want God's glory to be revealed in every part of this journey. We want people (ourselves included) to come to know Him better as a result of this totally unwanted experience in our lives.
• Thanksgiving and praise for the AMAZING things God has done in my mom's life. And for the AMAZING things I believe are in her future. :-)

So . . . Tricia. Chemo. Prayer. Mondays. Got it?

Love to you all. Happy Valentine's Day!