Preface: 
		It is with a grateful heart that I thank 
		each of you for your continued prayers and support. 
		I appreciate so much your cards, prayers, and Mass enrollments. 
		As I live through these days I find myself writing about 
		the experience of living with cancer and I would like to 
		share with you the following:
	

 
Prayers are falling out of the mouths
of friends and strangers
filling up the void
between heaven and earth
seeking miracles,
healing of affliction,
a remedy to save my life.
 
Prayer surrounds me,
a staff to lean upon for strength,
a cloud to hide me from despair,
a pillar of fire to guide me
through the dark.
 
Prayer lifts me out of my diminished self,
carries me on subtle wings
to resting on the arms of God.