Adri van Nieuwenhuizen, Team Member
4 year survivor.
Diagnosed: 2005. Age: 49.
Like so many around me, my life could also be the theme for a novel or a song.
I trust as I share some words, engraved on sometimes pleated pages of my heart,that courage will be gained.
It was a day like any other at least that is what I thought.My appointment with the surgeon just a formality.Words of assurance were expressed and I went home.
I found myself there yet again a few days later. Doom pierced my soul and I thought my life would end as the news shattered my confidant life.
I had a lumpectomy and the stage was set for 33 radiation treatments.
My privacy was uncovered and invaded every time I got onto the cruel coldness of the metal bed. Yet there is value in all our valleys and I learned to embrace my femininity and never felt more beautiful, more loved and more special.
I believe the deeper our valleys the higher our victories.The Creator God who shares heaven with us during these fragile times composes and completes the story of our lives.Every outcome more rewarding Allow me to leave you with another song I have written during this journey of hope.
Will you come
As His goodness pass before me
And His favor as the rays of sun
I cannot help to lift my gaze
In wonder to the holy One
To think that He would kindly choose us
Broken but retained in heavens love
To reflect through mending pieces
Beams of light shining from above
He planted seeds in willing hearts
Granted seasons and broken soil
His method sometimes seem severe
But always worth the Workers toil
In His time there will be glory
As our Maker strengthens every root
He will bring to His own perfection
His word and promises too
The final measure seems the worst
As the pruning and more is done
Refinement taken to extreme
Still I say to you will you come
As you do, take the hand of the One who will lead the way.
With gratitude.
Adri
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