Now that you've received good test results . . .

what are you going to do?? (We are gearing up for the Superbowl.) First, I have nothing substantial planned for today. We are headed out of town for the weekend, so I am planning on getting a good book to read. I probably will rest quite a bit today simply because my mind has been put at ease. I feel like I have been holding my breath for so long and now can finally let it out and relax. It is quite unusual for me to have a day with no appointments and to not be recovering from chemo. There has been talk of planning a family vacation soon, too. We haven't been on one (where I wasn't on chemo) for 2 years.

Within the last week or so, I really was at peace with whatever was going to come. I talked openly about my thoughts, whether the news was good or bad. I looked to these verses in Psalms daily to comfort me:
Psalm 139: 13-18, 23-24

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

I ran into our pastor on Wednesday and told him I was pretty calm and didn't know why. He put it simply - grace. I really felt prepared for whatever was going to happen. But, I am so happy it turned out great!