Graciously Tenacious

Last November I started looking into devotionals for my husband and I to do together during the Advent season. I found a variety of different types of devotionals but nothing that would fit into the schedule I wanted. So I decided to put a devotional together for my husband and I to do together once a week for the season of Advent.  Each devotional has a bible passage, a worship song and a prayer.  My husband and I made time on Sunday afternoons to do these devotionals together. We would sit together to talk about the passage, worship together and pray. Here is last years devotional. Week 1 Song: O come O come Emmanuel  Passage: John 1:9-18 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.  He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become child

A couple weeks ago I decided that I wanted to celebrate my remission by doing a Light the Night Walk. The Light the Night Walk is an fundraising event by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society that raises money for the research of cures for blood cancers. The walk is only 1 mile (yay). This weekend my husband and I went to our very first Light the Night Walk. I went into this event already knowing that I would cry at some point but not knowing that I would want to cry at every point... mostly tears of joy. When my husband and I got to the event we checked in at registration and walked over to the tent to get our lanterns. At this event each participant is given a lantern with a specific color. Red lanterns are for family and supporters. Gold Lanterns are in recognition of those we have lost to the fight. And a white lantern if you are a survivor or current fighter. My husband got his red lantern and I was told to go to a different tent to get my white lantern. I walked over to the ten