This week

It has become increasingly more difficult to sit down and write. What can I say that has not already been said. We are in the process of starting a new life, this life after cancer. Things are way different now. Susan has started her new job as Director of Counseling Services at the church. This is a very exciting and challenging position for her. She will be awesome!! I am making my way back to work. I am doing 4 days a week, though right now I am working 5 or 6 hours a day but a few times I have done 8+. I am getting stronger and thinking more clearly. This week, Wednesday, I have the first of my every-six-week check-ups. For the next eighteen months I will see an ENT who will check my status. I am way farther into this medical stuff than I ever thought I would be.

When we were in Maui we were so blessed by our ohana group. It was this group that we found fellowship and friendship We found connection. To be real honest we miss them. Here on the mainland everybody is sooo busy. Okay, enough whining. Our solution - start our own ohana. So in January we are going to do it. Ohana means family in Hawaiian, but it is not a rigidly defined family. I think of the word kinship is a good synonym. It is where bonds are made. Where we connect, where community is made. So we are very excited at the prospect. Please pray with us on how this should look. And always thanks for your continued prayers for us.