I don’t have anything very profound to say today, but it’s been a while since I gave you an update. I’m doing great. I have some side effects but all that I can easily deal. I’m trying to live life like I did before being a cancer survivor and I’m doing pretty well – although Tuesday, my body was very clear to tell me to SLOW DOWN. I almost slept the whole day. So, fatigue wise, I’m not back yet.
I have been amazed at how God is using me and using others in my life to make me “SEE” Him even more. You think you are so close and know God so well and then you see Him working in ways you can’t imagine. I’m absolutely in awe of my God. He is working in people all around me and I feel so honored to be working with some of those people.
We have friends that just decided they didn’t need to go too far to be on the mission field. They just moved their family – the couple and 2 high school kids – to a 3 bedroom apartment at a low-income housing development on East side Bakersfield (the side you don’t go to unless you have locks on your car etc) By living there, it opens the doors for Jesus Shack to come in and hold bible studies and more. Matter of fact, I’ll be in my element because they have asked me to coordinate and head up a VBS for all the kids there at that complex. That’s my heaven. I love giving to those kids! They appreciate everything!! So, we’ll have games, and snacks, and crafts, and of course story time (which I will look forward to). God has given me the passion for His children – to let them in on the good news of how much He loves them. This will be SO incredible! You can start praying for me now that I have the energy and the wisdom to know just want to say and have them do – it’s going to be in mid-July.
Our church is doing a series on our bodies. They are trying to convey to us that we don’t have to have the bodies of a model etc. We need to love our bodies – take care of them – and remember they belong to God. Next week is the final week and they are wrapping up with broken bodies. Yes, some earthly bodies are broken and we have to deal with that – but we have hope for the future because we’ll have new perfect bodies in heaven. So, I did a video of my story – my broken body and side effects etc from the cancer – but my hope for my eternal body. It’s not something I really enjoy – but I hope my story helps someone else who is suffering with a broken body on this earth.
SO, God is awesome. He is opening so many doors and allowing Lon and I to serve Him – something in the past may have “gotten in the way of my schedule” but now something I wake up every morning wondering just how He wants to use me! What a new me – what a much more joyful me! When you truly put yourself aside and live for God every day that’s when you will feel the most complete! Here’s to being God’s servants!
By the way, some of you have asked in the past if there was a way you could send a gift to help with my medical bills (which will end up being over $20,000 by the time we are done). FIRST, know I am NOT ASKING for help (God will provide) but if God has lead you to feel you can help a little you can now send a gift to LIFE JOURNEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH – and in the MEMO area write BENEVOULANCE FUND: BORNTREGERS and we will receive that gift and it will be a tax write off for you. The address is: 4100 Easton Dr. Suite 6, Bakersfield, CA 93309. Thanks now if you feel lead. Remember though that financial giving is NOT the only way you can support us! Please keep those prayers coming that Lon and I continue to look for ways to serve God, that my body continues to react well to the last 2 treatments, and that the cancer then stays away. Your prayers, calls and emails mean the world to me!!
LOVE YOU ALL!