With You

by Cheryl Merrick
With you, my love,
nothing seems impossible
as we walk with God.

Together, Change can be fun,

Challenge is an adventure,

Disappointments are only temporary,

Projects are doable,

and all things become 

opportunities for growth. 

My husband and I are at Valley of Fire in Nevada. Our first outing since I was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer.

Rewriting My Life- a Year with Cancer

by Cheryl Merrick

Promising what was not mine to give,

I assured my preschool granddaughter

that I would be at her wedding someday,

till on my seventy first birthday,

I learned that I had cancer.

As I was given just three months to live,

all my dreams of spending the next

twenty years with my family,

dissolved as my tears washed away

my "script" for my life,

preparing me for a new and better "script".