Post Number Thirty-Three

Terry's New Job

Vacation is over for me.  I came home on July 24 to resume my duties at First UMC of Port Huron.  Terry remained at the cottage on Lake Louise and began her new job as program developer at the Lake Louise Christian Community Camp and Retreat Center.  

I could mope around about how this was just a plot on her part to live at the cottage and extend her vacation.  I am quite sure she does not mind that unexpected benefit to her new situation. However, this new position is also the most recent and surest indication of her return to health and vigor.  Terry has a new job.

A year ago last month her diagnosis plunged us into a year of sickness; a year in which nothing could escape the grip of cancer and the treatments and surgery the disease brought upon us.  It was like an unwelcome and vile visitor intruding into our space and demanding all of our attention.  That visitor no longer lives in our house.  There are no guarantees that it will never return, but it was gone yesterday and it is not here today, and I do not expect it tomorrow.  For that entire year Terry's job was to be sick and endure the effects of the treatment.

Now Terry has a new job.  It is a job that encourages creativity and requires that she envision a bright future. It is a job where the focus is upon creating a space where others can encounter the holy and be nurtured in their faith. Praise God.