The poem about carrying images and other prayers is ready to share.
I posted it on Cowbird, which is a lovely platform for poetry with multiple images. To read it, go here: http://cowbird.com/story/127905/Ways_To_Pray_For_Healing/
I am so grateful for people who have been sharing their memories of me and also sending me photos of lights and other things.
Susan,
I sent in my registration for the workshop at Saint Mary’s in June on the St. John’s Bible and the Risen Christ. I ordered your books on the Bible’s art, and I am blown-away by the depth of meaning the illustrators bring to those timeless verses. I’m already planning to share a bit with my students (h.s. theology teacher) and I want them to create a page of their own – love the examples of students doing that online.
I have just discovered your blog and am so dismayed to read of your present trials. I am a cancer survivor as well. I pray that these beautiful spring days will bring you renewed hope and powerful healing. And if you are feeling well enough in June, I hope to spend a few days with you at Saint Mary’s. I am a 1970 alumna and it will be great to be back on campus.
Sara
Sara, thank you so much for this message. Those books have been a great blessing to me. When the diagnosis came, I had only two questions for the oncologist: can I do a book release party and reading for my new book of poems in April and can I do the seminar in June. He looked at the calendar and said, “Don’t cancel them. Let’s see how you do.” I’m doing well! Not many side effects at all, and mostly just ordinary stuff, with a little fatigue. I am quite confident I’ll be able to do the June seminar, as it will be after an “easy week” of treatment and I can take a week off at that stage and resume the following week. It will be a time of recovery and rejuvenation– even resurrection– on multiple levels. And to be with a kind and wonderful group of Sisters and the brilliant S. Sandra Schneiders can only help! So many know and understand the cancer journey, it is very different than it used to be. I look forward to meeting you then.