A Perfect Match {Stem Cell Collection}

In this picture top left hand corner is my son, Jared's stem cells that are being collected from the machine to the right of him. 

After the 7 days of chemo starting on the 14^th of May, this bag of life giving cells will be used to restore, to reboot his whole immune system like back to a new born baby. The old immune system will be wiped out and in turn given the new {immature} blood stem cells. 

The day he gets these blood stem cells transplanted back into his body his immune system will be brand NEW…. it will be like being born again the nurses told us, he will have a new immune system, a new birthday........I chuckled and said, I think we will have a party & celebrate with a birthday cake that 

day!! 

After hearing that statement made by the nurse, I felt Papa God revealing things to me while I sat there with my son Jared watching this collection process unfold. As his mother & the love I have for him, I would take his place; I would give my life for his to take away all the pain, to give him life. 

This made me ponder back to the day when I gave my heart to Jesus. I was born again, reborn in my spirit into God's kingdom. I had a new life, hope and a new chance, a new BIRTHDAY!  Heaven threw a party!

You see a blood donor had been found, a Perfect Match. 

Jesus Christ is his name; 

he was willing to give his blood for me to save my life from the cancer of sin that was going to take my life away. 

I needed a donor and His blood was a rare find, it was spotless, perfect in every way. His DNA had not been tainted with the sin of this world, it was perfect for me, perfect for you.  

However, before Jesus sacrificed & gave his perfect blood for us he did not know if we would accept him as our donor.  Regardless, He loved us so much that he gave his blood, his life for us so we could live & not die from what had corrupted us since our birth.  

Without his sacrifice of blood, exchanging his life for ours there was no hope, for us to live. 

..............................We would die in our sin. 

Jesus calls to us giving us a choice to receive his life giving sacrifice. 

If we choose to accept his life giving blood we are born again.  

We get a transplant, a new heart, new blood, spiritual blood, we take on the DNA of our heavenly Father, his blood restores and reboots our whole life, it wipes away every sin from our past, we become like a baby and we get to grow up and mature in his glorious nature. 

We get the opportunity to LIVE again. 

Thank you Jesus for your sacrifice and for being my blood donor!  

I have received him with open arms, have you?

Transforming Life,

"I am not here to make you aware of Cancer, I am here to make Cancer aware of JESUS"

My Son's Battle with stage 4 Cancer

I am a proud Mama!!

Yes sir reeeeeeeee......................

My son, Jared is such an inspiration to me


actually, he is an inspiration to a lot of people



                     Because....................


                                               in the FACE of adversity


He rejoices,  because he knows where his help comes from


                                            he understands that he is not his own and put's

his FAITH, his TRUST in              


                                      "JESUS"

You see, Jared just got out of the hospital for a 3 day chemo treatment

                                                         To bring you up to speed.........


Last year he went through 3 rounds of AVBD Chemo treatments 

                               
                                  from Jan- March 2013 until the pet scan came back clean.


Then after a check up and another pet scan the cancer was diagnosed again in Feb 2014 and this time in his bone Stage 4 HL.



So this is now his second round in 2014 of I.C.E. chemo treatments 

   
                                      which when taken he is admitted into the hospital for 3 days.

The day he arrived in the hospital he got busy about his FATHER'S business

He prayed with one of the nurses

Then later that same day at the hospital he prayed with the guy that came into repair the TV.

There were many more pray sessions through out the 3 days that just blessed my heart


and I have no doubt it 


                             BLESSED GOD'S HEART!!

The day after Jared got out of the hospital


                        he was ask to be the guest speaker at "Relay For Life"

He shared his STORY..............


He brought a message of FAITH & HOPE in Jesus to those that are fighting cancer, those who have fought and won, or sadly those who have lost someone to cancer.

He spoke with people



                                        ..................He Prayed with people

He took the time to love on people......

Jesus ask us to be his hands and feet and Jared does this so beautifully

this guy had lost his Father to cancer and was deeply wounded trying to heal from the pain

2013 Mustang .......The Memorial on wheels

Here is a cancer awareness car that Jared got the privilege to sign

what a beautiful memorial to all those we love and remember.......

This picture says it all.................


Jared loves life, he is an encourager.......he shares the life of Jesus that he has been given


does he get down, sure, does he have negative thoughts, Im sure


                       

But he knows all those are choices

                               .....................he chooses to live IN HOPE


he chooses daily to live IN FAITH


not in despair....................



I love what he said at the "Relay For Life" during his speech



"I am not here to make you aware of Cancer, I am here to make Cancer aware of JESUS"



Don't tell God how big your problem is, tell your problem how big your GOD is


So you see with a thankful and humble heart I am proud to call him SON!


PS: If you would like to follow Jared and encourage him you can find him on Facebook

Loving transformation,

Lori

Have No Fear

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I don't know about you but I need to listen to the words of my Papa God!

This was part of my daily devotion

taken from Jesus calling..........

May it speak to you like it did me


Have no fear.

Fear is evil and & perfect Love casts out fear.


 There is no room for fear in the heart in which I dwell.


                                               Fear destroys Hope.............


It cannot exist where Love is, or where Faith is.

Fear is the curse of the world. Man is afraid - afraid of poverty, afraid of loneliness, afraid of unemployment, afraid of sickness. 

Many, many are man's fears..........................

Nation is afraid of nation. Fear, fear, fear, everywhere.

 Fight fear as you would a plague. 

Turn it out of your lives and home. Fight it singly. Fight it together.


Never inspire fear. It is an evil ally. Fear of punishment, fear of blame.


No work that employs this enemy of Mine is work for Me. Banish it. There is another and better way.


Ask Me and I will show it you. God- from God Calling.

RE Words.......

In DIY land there is a lot of discussion of the RE words. 

Repurposed ~~~ Restored

Reform~~~Renew~~~Recreate 

I happen to love repurposing and restoring.....

 taking things that no one else sees value in, discarded things,

 thrown out on the side of the road things

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 old worn out, dinged up things that are consider useless 

pieces that have served their purpose some say at one time in it's life but now headed to the dump

a little rough around the edges maybe 

with all the eye candy worn off

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Webster definition of re-store

re-store: 

give back, return

to put or bring back into existence or use

to bring back to...or put back into a former or original start: RENEW

to put again in possession of something

wow now isn't that a beauty.....

beautifully restored

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It took the beholder of the piece to look past the ugly 

the old 

to see hope, to see beauty in something that no one else could see

knowing this was going to be hard work,

scraping, sanding, filling in the broken pieces

ah! but the blood sweat and tears was so worth the out come in the end.

Webster definition of re-purpose

to give a new purpose or use

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you see the point of this post is not so much about restoring things as 

REstoring people

As mush as I love restoring things I love to see lives RESTORED

all the more!

There is so much more value in a person~~~~ in people 

but they can be discarded thrown to the side

seeming to be used up with no purpose in life

how sad

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There are countless numbers of hurting people in the world

with broken lives that feel there is no hope 

no reason worth living

NO Purpose

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But there is Hope 

There is a Master restorer

 He is the best at putting back together all the broken pieces

In scripture we can find RE words that give us purpose, give us a hope and a future.

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17 NKJV

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder 

Jesus beholds the beauty in each one of us

Roy Lessin put it so perfectly and I had to share his thoughts

Redeem

 means to be bought back, delivered, ransomed, or purchased. 

As our Redeemer, God has purchased our freedom in 

Christ from the slave market of sin, 

delivered us from Satan's power, and made us His own possession. 

We have been redeemed 

from a useless life

 to a fruitful life; 

from a life of bondage 

to a life of freedom; 

from a life of guilt, condemnation, and judgment 

to a life of forgiveness, justification, and peace..........

Restore means 

that God brings back and gives to us again 

what was once taken from us or lost to us. 

God assures us that what was lost can be found, 

what has ended can begin again, and what is no longer 

seen can be brought back into view. 

He can restore a broken relationship, 

lost health, 

a lost blessing, 

a broken heart, 

a former ministry, 

or a former joy.  R.L

You see, I have been 

restored~~~repurposed~~~renewed

I have been Redeemed!!!

Now those are shout-in words.

I know life is tough but no one has to walk it alone. 

My prayer for you today is that if you are hurting, depressed, hopeless, tired, weary, jobless,

that you will run to Jesus the one who can put all the broken pieces back together.

He alone can make al things new

I am thankful for his faithfulness

 his saving grace and putting my broken pieces back together.

What are you thankful for? 

I would love to hear.

PS: If anyone is ever in need of a friend or a ear to listen or to pray, I am an email away! 

Until next time,
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The First Valentine Message

The first Valentine message is the best one ever sent.

This message of love was sent to the world by God the creator. God is love and all expressions of love  started with him. God saw humanity and our need for a savior and out of his love sent his one and only son as a sacrifice in order to restore the fellowship between God and man. When we receive his gift of sacrificial Love which is Jesus, we enter into the family of God.

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There are different types of Love, lets explore a few.

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Agape, a greek word for love is a love of choice and refers to the will to love instead of an emotion. It seeks the highest good for others freely without expecting or asking anything in return.  God is love and is the foundation of Agape. God is the one and only true God of Love.

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Phileo is another type of love which is a friendship love. It is described as a heart to heart connection. A close friend is someone that you trust, you are transparent with and can share your joys your sorrows & your pain. God desires that we love him this way that we can come to him sharing our joys our pains and our sorrows.

Of course he is God and he knows these things about us already but so desires that we come to him and share our hearts like a close friend. The great thing about God is he will never reject you he is in the business of fixing broken things.  He makes beauty out of Ashes.

God speaks of the bride of Christ in his word.  Marriage is the most intimate of all relationships.  You see to have a relationship with someone you have to spend time with them on a regular basis to really know them.  When you fall in love you can't get enough of that person to whom your affections are for. You want to know their likes and dislikes, what makes them happy or sad, their favorite color, favorite meal etc.... You learn all these things by just being with them daily.

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A bride and groom long for and anticipate that special day to be near each other always....... to spend life with each other till death do us part.

This is the longing of God's heart that we dwell with him that we are intimate with him, sharing our lives daily with him, getting to know him on a personal level, a personal relationship.

God is infatuated with us and is waiting on us just to be near him .....just to be with him. God wants and desires to dwell with us. He gives us freewill to choose to know him in this intimate way.

I dont know about you but I love to love him and desire to know him more, I mean really know him.  It was love that sent Jesus to the cross and he did it for you and me.  What a beautiful expression of love that was.

Gods Valentine message rings out continually throughout eternity.

You can't make God love you any more than he already does and you can't make him love you any less by anything you have done wrong, his love is unconditional he is just waiting with open arms!

Oh how he LOVES US!




Until next time,

Tis the season to be Jolly~~The Reason We Celebrate!

 Christmas, ah! Tis the season to be JOLLY.....it is a time for us to remember & celebrate the birth of Jesus our Savior. Really, isn't it amazing that Jesus left His kingly throne and came down to earth to be clothed in our human flesh. To walk as a man, to feel what we feel, to experience all the struggles that you and I would ever face in our lifetime...wow, to show us how to live our life by following his example. Then to know that he took upon himself our sins, the sins of the whole world that we could be reconciled back to the Father by accepting Him. I mean that is a reason to celebrate! That is the best love story ever played out.

When my kids were small they would get up on Christmas morning excited to see what they had received under the tree. But before any presents were unwrapped we would sing Happy Birthday to Jesus and read the bible story of His precious birth and thank him for his sacrifice.  It was a tradition in our home to remember and to celebrate the true meaning of CHRISTmas!

Boy do I miss those days.

I know this blog is brand new but if anyone out their in blog land lands here I would love to hear your family traditions.

 Adding some color in our Christmas cottage

our little cottage tree centerpiece

Homemade mason jar tea-light candle with Epsom salt,
cranberries, a stick of cinnamon tied with twine!