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

[Otto, Ken]

Margaret,
The way you described "a family of choice" meant a lot to me, thanks and I of course, am one who is sending special prayers for you during this difficult time.
Blessings and Love
Ken 

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From: oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:oe-bounces at wedgeblade.net]On Behalf Of Margaret Helen Aiseayew
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 9:34 PM
To: Colleague Dialogue; Order Ecumenical Community; earthrise at yahoogroups.com
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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