Good Evening Everyone,
I received very good news .....   My BRCA genetic testing, which was a genetic test for the breast cancer gene, was negative.  This means that neither one of my parents carried the gene, they could not have passed it on to me, and therefore I can not pass it on to Shawn and Lindsay, because I do not carry the gene.  My breast cancer was caused by environmental factors. 

It is a tremendous relief for me, because although I have passed on my traits to my daughters, I really didn't want to pass on the breast cancer gene.  To me, that would be devastating.  I don't want my girls to have to go through all that I have gone through, in their life.  I hope they have babies one day and nurse them forever, and love every moment of that bonding experience.  Please God!

Today I received a beautiful email from my friend, Joan.  It started out....  Thanks for being angels in my life....  Joan, my beautiful friend Joan, thinks that I am an angel in her life.   Wow!

The email begins.....  You are in your car driving home.  Thoughts wander to the game you want to see or meal you want to eat, when suddenly a sound unlike any you've ever heard fills the air.  The sound is high above you.  A trumpet?  A choir?   A choir of trumpets?  You don't know, but you want to know.....  So you pull over, get out of your car and look up..  As you do, you see you are not the only curious one.  The roadside has become a parking lot.  Car doors are open, people are staring at the sky...  Shoppers are racing out of the grocery store.  The Little League baseball game across the street has come to a halt.  Players and parents are searching the clouds And what they see, and what you see, has never before been seen.

As if the sky were a curtain, the drapes of the atmosphere part....  a brilliant light spills onto the earth...  There are no shadows.  None.  From every hue ever seen and a million more never seen...  Riding on the flow is an endless fleet of angels.  They pass through the curtain one myriad at a time, until they occupy every square inch of the sky.  North....South ..... East....  West.

Thousands of silvery wings rise and fall in unison, and over the sound of trumpets, you can hear the cherubim and the seraphim chanting,   "Holy, Holy, Holy..."   The final flank of angels is followed by twenty-four silver bearded elders and a multitude of souls who join the angels in worship.  Suddenly, the heavens are quiet.  All is quiet.  The angels turn, you turn, the entire world turns and there HE IS....  Jesus. 

Through waves of light you see the silhouetted figure of  Christ the King.  He is atop a great stallion, and the stallion is atop a billowing cloud.  He opens His mouth, and you are surrounded by His declaration:  " I am the Alpha and the Omega."  The angels bow their heads....  The elders remove their crowns...And before you is a Figure so consuming that you KNOW, instantly you know:  Nothing else matters...  Forget stock markets and school reports:  Sales meetings and football games..  Nothing is newsworthy...  All that mattered, matters no more...  For Christ Has Come.

Oh my goodness...  Whoever wrote this, wrote something so visually compelling that it brought tears to my eyes.   I am so thankful that Joan shared this with me.  Thank you, Joan.

I really hope that when my last day on earth comes, and I am called to heaven, that Jesus comes for me with all the angels.  How breathtaking would that be.   I can assure you, I will run to the light...  I am not afraid to die.

 My life has been truly magnificent.  I have been so blessed to have my wonderful parents who  had a beautiful marriage and gave me the most awesome childhood.  There was enough.  Enough love, time, attention, food, shelter, financial resources, clothing and joy. I have been blessed to have my good and loving husband and beautiful healthy daughters, my dear family and friends.  And I am blessed to have all the people who have entered  my life in the last year and four months.  I realize that life is all about perspective.  I am grateful for every single moment of time shared with everyone.   And when Jesus comes, I will get to see my Mom and Dad again.  Oh happy day!

And so, my wish for you this day, is that you choose to see all the blessings in your life and feel gratitude in your heart.  This is the only November 29, 2012 that you will ever receive!

En `Joy,

Marialyce