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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nI walk into the clinic and, blow me away, a kind woman welcomes me immediately to her desk. She updates my info online and within five minutes she is taking me back to the dressing room to put on the lovely, open-in-the-front gown. This photo is of the lockers for our carry-on paraphernalia. I don’t choose the Mother Teresa or Helen Keller one, as you might think. I choose the Dolly Parton locker (how perfect for the mountain top, and in my case, this molehill, experience). My name is called by a lovely technician. My nervous chatter starts: \u201cSooo, is it new technology and just a little picture taken today?\u201d The tech, smiling, knowing what my skittish remark meant, responds: \u201cA little more than a picture but less painful than since you had your last mammogram a year ago! There is a curve added\u2026.see!\u201d She points to the mammogram x-ray machine. Within 5 minutes, the whole procedure is over and I hear birds singing and thunderous applause ensued. She was right! It was so much better than before. A sigh of great relief! I could breathe! Before I leave, I turn and see this quote printed on the wall behind me. \u201cEnjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realize they were the BIG things!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My friend commented on my \u201cMountain Top\u201d blog yesterday: \u201cI grew up around and raised our children in the mountains of Washington and Oregon. Winter, Spring or Summer, we would enjoy the beauty and majesty of God\u2019s creations. It was not necessarily the scaling the mountain, as we did much of that, or skiing down,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9832,"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":[12749,12750],"tags":[12755,2704,1769,12751,2492,9505,12752,388,824,12754,12753,457,2084,2060,2499,8793],"class_list":["post-9831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breast-health","category-mammogram","tag-abnormality","tag-ambassador","tag-christian","tag-corrected","tag-create-in-me-a-clean-heart","tag-cynical","tag-gown","tag-humbled","tag-little-things","tag-mammogram","tag-mindset","tag-negativity","tag-optimism","tag-positivity","tag-psalm-5110","tag-selfish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831","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=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9837,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions\/9837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Right away, I notice a gal reading a People magazine, waiting for her name to be called. Two women, one in a gown and another in her street clothes, are in non-stop conversation. That chatting is annoying me because I can\u2019t concentrate as I’m trying to read my daily Bible plan on my phone. (Oh me!) A technician calls the magazine-reading gal\u2019s name, and subsequently, the gal with her buddy. She looks back at her friend and says: \u201cCome, go with me\u201d and the technician says \u201cShe can\u2019t go with you to the mammography room.\u201d Now, I\u2019m sitting in a state of shame that I, the \u201cPeace Zone\u201d girl, have allowed myself to be lowered to the level of a cynical, selfish and ungrateful, Bible-toting Christian. I am mortified. I get past my angst, my little worries
I speak to the \u201cbuddy\u201d sitting across from me: \u201cI\u2019m so glad that you are here for your friend.\u201d She tells me that her friend and her doctor \u201cfound something of concern and today is going to be at least a two-hour appointment\u201d. Not a “routine” appointment and immediately, I do what I do best when I am outside of me and become Him in \u201cvoice, hands and feet\u201d mode. I speak in my more fluent language of compassion and God\u2019s love and explain that in scripture we hear why \u201ctwo are better than one\u201d. Before long, her friend opens the door and signals her back and I see the \u201cbuddy system\u201d in full \u201cgo\u201d mode. I recalled editing a book last month by a now cancer-free young woman, but this scenario was the start of her two-year cancer journey. I say a little quiet prayer for the journey of this gal \u2013 that she will partner up with God as her travel companion as this young author did.
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Indeed, it is the little things we must appreciate \u2013 in sunshine and rain \u2013 in calm and in
By the way, that new system that they were working on that \u201cinconvenienced\u201d me three months prior\u2026..already sent me the results of my mammogram: \u201cDear Donna, thank you for your recent visit to our center on 4\/3\/2019. We are happy to report that the results of your screening mammogram are as follows: No evidence of breast cancer or other significant abnormality.\u201d
Thank you, God, for your loving kindness. Thank you, for loving me enough to correct me and to help me be Your correctable servant. \u201cCreate in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.\u201d (Psalm 51:10)<\/p>\n\n\n\n