You Bless Me: Pt. 1

I went home for the past week, and as I posted previously, I've been really, really homesick, and by God's grace, it was such a blessing to be home this past week. To all you readers out there, let me walk you through the past week, because seriously, God's love and grace was just ALL over the past week.

Edit: Going back and looking at this post, it's a mega-post, so I'm going to be splitting this week into two separate posts.

Point 1: Mom

Originally, my vacation from work was supposed to start on Thursday, but because other peoples' vacations fell through, I got to go home on Wednesday night, and this was actually really great.

For those of you who I have not told (per my mother's consent I am allowed to disclose this information), about three weeks ago, I got an e-mail from my mom saying that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, and... I kinda freaked out at first, but she later told me that it was super stage 0 (the tumor was only a couple millimeters wide) and that they had caught it super early on during her annual mammogram. And there were already several ways that we as a family had been able to see how this diagnosis was a blessing in disguise - or that God seriously redeems the problems that sin has brought into our world. Because of this diagnosis, I got to go home that weekend three weeks ago to be there for my mom's consultation. Because of this diagnosis, we as a family got the opportunity to really show support to each other; honestly, we do not connect very well, and we don't spend much time together. Because of this diagnosis, my sister is forced to grow up, in character and in love. Because of this diagnosis, we are reminded that we are not in control, and that everything in our lives are in His hands, and we should live as if that truth were the only thing we were clinging to.

So the reason why going home on Wednesday is so great is because my mom's surgery was scheduled for the next day, and because I got to go home Wednesday, I got to just be there for her - our whole family was able to just be there for her - when she went into the surgery, even if I just played Fire Emblem: Awakening for the like 6 hours. The surgery went well, and she's recovering now; we're getting a lot of food from other aunties, haha. God is good.