The Road Less Travel

This was my message from my niece: "You must walk through the valley to get to the Mountain".  Boy was she ever correct.  I am a breast cancer survivor... and the road was not easy....I am a black female, single parent two wonderful children...sole supporter...So it was very much important that I survive...So throughout all my struggles I held close to God... I have heard it said that there are times that you cannot pray... I never understood this until I went through this myself.  I have a strong faith in God or so I thought... but I learned that it was not enough.... all through my struggles with this disease, the requirement was for strength... strength that I did not know that I had... and every time I thought I was strong... I needed to be stronger...Every time I read the story about Jesus I never understood how Mary could of bear it all...now I understand..You have to hang on close to God, regardless of the storm around you and don't loose site that it is him first and everything else after. I had to recreate my relationship with god, I had to learn how to know his presence, how to hear his voice and I had to learn to Obey... huge!!  I had to seal my relationship with God, create a strong  foundation, make sure that they were no leaks and if they were to be able to realize it right away and fix it....I have entered into a brand new classroom, where my struggle is fighting on a daily basis to stay close and in his sight.   You can easily be distracted...