Back Aleady!

I am back from chemotherapy #3 already!
Everything went fine.
(The chemo process seems pretty gentle at the time, from the combination of drugs.)
As always, thanks for prayers!
Now I am hungry!
(Thanks Marie!)

Chemotherapy Prayer

"Blessed are you God our God, King of the universe...."

"A morning prayer from the book Prayers and Promises by Ed Dobson tells of a time that the author and his son attended a year of weekly classes on conversion to Judaism at a local (Grand Rapids) synagogue. Their purpose was not to convert from Christianity, but to understand Judaism better.

Dobson wrote:

One of the things we learned was the official Jewish blessing. When Christians pray over their food, they often ask God to bless it. From a Jewish point of view, this is very foolish. After all, God has already blessed the food. He sent the rain. He sent the sunshine. He provided good farmland for growing crops. And
he gave farmers the ability to grow the food and bakers the ability to bake the bread. So rather than asking God to bless the food, Jews bless God for the food.

Dobson said that they pray with the formula, "Blessed are you God our God, King of the universe...." with the topic "Who brings forth bread from the earth" at mealtime, and with many other subjects throughout the day.

My prayer for chemotherapy has been:
Lord, please help the chemo drugs to find the cancer cells;
to effectively destroy them; and
to help my other cells be so healthy that the cancer cells cannot grow back.

I will apply Dobson's prayer suggestion for my situation:
Blessed are you God our God, King of the universe,
who knows where the cancer cells are

and uses medicine to destroy cancer,
and who brings health and life in my vulnerability.

Blessed are you God our God, King of the universe....