[Oe List ...] With Love, Hope, Peace and Joy at the Holidays

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Dear Margaret,
Thank you for your courage in sharing with us your diagnoses. Your strength to acknowledge that and share it with the community is commendable. I pray that you will continue to hold up your strength as you travel this journey. I will be thinking of you as I light my candles.
Elsa Batica
Minneapolis, MN




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From: Margaret Helen Aiseayew <aiseayew at netins.net>
To: Colleague Dialogue <Dialogue at wedgeblade.net>; Order Ecumenical Community <OE at wedgeblade.net>; earthrise at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 9:34:08 PM
Subject: [Oe List ...] With Love, Hope, Peace and Joy at the Holidays

 
Dearest Colleagues,
 
I have been deeply involved with some health 
concerns for quite some time.  Usually notes like this come to us from 
second parties, but my circle here in Iowa is intensely blood family.  Only 
a few of them can even begin to understand the intensity of  my collegial 
circle, a family of choice so to speak.  I want to draw the circle of 
love and care and friendship that I count on all the time as large as I 
can.   I am sorry that we cannot combine the Dialogue and OE lists so 
that so many of you (as I do) will not get this two or three 
times.  When you continue to not know anything there is really nothing 
to share.  Now seems the time.
 
I have been diagnosed with breast cancer (invasive 
lobular carcinoma--ILC) and a week from Monday, December 29) they are going to 
do a complete mastectomy.  This is a breast cancer that is almost never 
found on mammograms and ultrasounds.  I've been through five since August 
and even the last report two weeks before the lumpectomy declared "there is no 
mass." :-)
 
I am confident in my doctors and confident in my 
faith.  I don't know why I have been chosen for this special journey (not 
unique, and not a detour) but I trust that the purposes will be revealed with 
time to someone somewhere, even if it is not revealed to me.  I also 
know that I can count on your prayers and energy coming my way for whatever 
results the creative powers of the universe may have in mind.
 
My life with you has been a gift of being 
beyond compare.  Few have been and are as blessed as I.
 
Emmanuel, Margaret



      
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