{"id":1287,"date":"2016-06-14T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/fighting-good-fight-of-faith_14\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:06:40","slug":"fighting-good-fight-of-faith_14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1287","title":{"rendered":"Fighting the Good Fight of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>(This is one of my first ever blogs, June 12, 2010. I repost today because I thought, just maybe one of my FB friends could see how my Sweetheart and I “fought the good fight of faith” during his illness, 6 years ago. It blessed me then, it blesses me now — NEVER stop fighting the good fight of faith!).<\/p>\n

June 12, 2010: Our faith journey continues to keep us on our toes \u2013 endeavoring to be good soldiers with our combat boots on, armored with God\u2019s Word, and completely surrendered to our Commander\u2019s orders. We know there is tremendous value in \u201cfighting cancer\u201d with a good positive attitude and being nutrition-conscious! And we\u2019re definitely doing that. But, most importantly, we are doing what St. Paul told young Timothy to do in 1 Timothy 6:12, \u201cFight the good fight of FAITH!\u201d We are convinced that God is using our \u201cgreat adventure\u201d to not only cause our faith to be strong and unwavering, but we have a lot of friends, family members, medical team and acquaintances taking this journey of faith with us who are also fighting this good fight of faith with and for us! <\/p>\n

Ron successfully completed the 3-days of cyberknife treatments to kill the second tumor that was on his lumbar-2 vertabrae. We\u2019re still working on the pain in his lower back to diminish, but he is a brave, courageous soldier. There are days when we think about how \u201croutine\u201d our lives once were\u2026..waking up, getting dressed, having devotion, eating breakfast, going to work, etc. etc. And then, this \u201csuddenly\u201d happened that certainly caused a totally new life perspective. Rarely did we take the time to focus on how green the grass was, how blue the sky was, how bright the sun was, and how precious were the days when we were pain-free and strong. Now, each day is one to be cherished! <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll admit we\u2019ve had our share of crises, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve ever come to realize the preciousness of life like we do now! For many years I received those little e-mails from friends that talked about appreciating life\u2026..and now I get it! Holding my Honey\u2019s hand, kissing his sweet lips, smelling his wonderful smell (btw — \u201cFierce by Abercrombie\u201d — LOL!), hearing his laughter when he\u2019s watching the grandchildren, hearing him tell me once again \u201cI love you\u201d \u2013 all those things that were once \u201croutine\u201d are now so precious and dear to me! <\/p>\n

The next phase of our journey will take place on June 22nd when he is scheduled for the surgery to remove the kidney that has the primary tumor (the real culprit of this whole deal) in it. The urologist is expecting to do a laparoscopic nephrectomy (much less invasive than standard kidney removal), which means smaller incisions and less recovery time. Please pray with us for that to be exactly what happens, that Ron will recover quickly and do great with just one kidney (thank God for this back-up system), and that this will bring much relief and wholeness to his body! We look forward to planting our flag of VICTORY very soon! We appreciate your prayers and support so much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(This is one of my first ever blogs, June 12, 2010. I repost today because I thought, just maybe one of my FB friends could see how my Sweetheart and I “fought the good fight of faith” during his illness, 6 years ago. It blessed me then, it blesses me now — NEVER stop fighting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8031,8032,5964,8033,3094,8034,8035,8036,8037,8038,8039],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1-timothy-612","tag-armored-with-gods-word","tag-combat-boots","tag-cyberknife","tag-faith-journey","tag-fight-the-good-fight","tag-fight-the-good-fight-of-faith","tag-fighting-cancer","tag-flag-of-victory","tag-good-soldier","tag-positive-attitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5326,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/5326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}