It has been a good week, so far. No deep-down fatigue episodes, and I am sleeping a little better. The miles of the journey go on. What started as miles of the journey to an ironman finish has evolved through the years to a journey through a cancer diagnosis and treatment.
The tasks and the trials are in principle, the same. It is amazing how the life and consequent training for endurance sports so accurately depict the struggle of life itself. In my own life with cancer, I see I need the same tools to get through treatment and therapies that I needed to get through bad patches of training for events.
Aging up has shown me that there is really not much new under the sun, so to speak. There seems to be a certain set of principles in life that are foundational to everything else, and they don't change. They appear in different settings and situations, but they don't change, even then. It is like a quote that goes something like "you can't break the law. You can only break yourself against it."
So today life and treatment are on a gentle downhill where the pedaling is easier, and the breeze feels good on my face. Praise God for this day. Tomorrow, who knows, I may be praising Him in the storm.
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