Pills of Promises

"When someone finds out they are going to die in a year or less, do they go to work the next day?" My friend from Palm Bay asked her doctor that question when she found out she had liver cancer and cancer in a couple of other places this week.

That question has been rattling around in my brain...how is Debbie going to live her remaining days in this world that is not our own. How would I live if I was in the same positions. I would like to think that I would be kinder and gentler to my children but probably I would plop my bum in my comfy chair and never get up.

I first met Debbie when she was pregnant with her 4th child, her first boy, while she was organizing/running the "Sunshine Club" during the Thursday Morning Women's Bible Study. A few years later, a few moms and I took our kids over to her house once a week to work on some Spanish and eat lunch together...

In 2004 she threw a scrapbook baby shower for my first girl, all the ladies made a page to go into the album.

Then Hurricane Francis took off all our shingles, mold was everywhere and Debbie offered a room in her house. I didn't know that she had some damage too, but that didn't stop her.

After God moved us to Jacksonville, Debbie found out she had breast cancer (her mom had died from it). She quit homeschooling and started teaching and for two years she has been free from cancer. She has two early teen girls and one that is 11 and her son is 9.

"I know the plans I have you," says the Lord....

That's a hard pill to swallow right now.