A Blessed Candlemas - Light in the Darkness
We count our lives by sunrises and sunsets. Forty days. Forty days since Christmas. Six days. Six sunsets since my first chemo infusion. 134 days. 134 days since my breast cancer diagnosis. Sixty days. Sixty days since my double mastectomy. 8,185. 8,185 sunrises since I married the love of my life and we have been journeying together in sickness and in health. 7624 days. 7624 days since I became a mother and met our beautiful first son, Joshua. 6745 days. 6745 since I prayed to the Holy Spirit for help during labor and He answered, giving me a deep sense of peace and calm as Noah was born, our second son. 5449 days. 5449 since the Lord answered my prayers for a daughter and the whole room of nurses, doctors, and mothers burst into joyful tears at the coming of Veronica. 4518 days. 4518 since little Teresa, my mother's namesake, entered into this world, our second daughter. 3524 days. 3524 since the umbilical cord finally unwrapped from the arm M...
