This is not a book about illness, but about great love, gratitude, and miracles.
If it helps one soul navigate thir own treacherous waters to a calmer show, then I am honored and grateful..
They are the words of one soul moving through this crazy, unpredictable yet glorious ride of life.
Reflections, Inspirations and lessons from my Journey as I step by step, moment to moment, breath to breath traveled Along my Healing path.
It is instead a compass pointed in the direction of all things healing.
There are many of those written to guide one in their chosen discipline.
This is not a "how to" book.
What follows are fallen petals Along my Path The treasures I found in the deep waters of my experience.
Out of the mud grows the lotus blossom.
The stillness and silence within our own wilderness of Healing brings gifts of clarity and knowing.
Stripped to nothing, tossing asside what is frivilous and keeping what is essential, the light then shines brighter on what is real and true for us.
Cancer, or any seeming trial or misforunate, can become our teacher.
We then bring meaning to what is given and allow it take us deeper and deeper into awakening.
However that is often our Path to discover from our experience the truth of who we truly are.
To experience our physical and emotional pain takes great strength.
The moment that is both the neck of the hourglass and that also widens into eternity.
We miss the present moment that is our life.
If we are looking at some optical illusion of a needed end, we don\'t feel and experience the blessings and lessons that are right before us.
However, the Journey is everything.
We live in waiting for some desired outcome.
Our life will begin again once chemotherapy ends, we feel better and are back to work.
We enter diagnosis, staging and then treatment, or any challenging life circumstance, and tend to put our sights on the future.
We sense the ominous breath of the diagnosis on the nape of our neck, reminding us of our fragility and impermanence, sending chills down our spine.
Not unlike a seamstress carefully reeling the silk, we are reminded of how easily this precious gift can be snapped away from us.
Then the delicate thread of our life is felt deeply as if for the first time.
We all walk through our lives in a hypnotic trance until something comes Along that grabs us by the shoulders and shakes and wakes us to stare face to face with reality.
With a magician\'s sleight of hand the cards of our life are now shuffled differently and we ask in surprise and shock ..."What happened?" Our breath, another sunrise and the number of hellos and good-byes before our final farewell are no longer taken for granted as our gears now jam in the stark light of diagnosis.
In the wink of an eye our diagnosis can detour our once seeming predictable and planned footsteps in the direction of unforeseen vistas and treacherous paths.
For if our heart closes during any Journey then we have traveled nowhere and learned nothing.
To somehow, with all our humanness, keep opening time and time again to allow our light to shine.
No matter what our life challenges to truly dance to the rhythm and pulse of God.
Perhaps the triumph over cancer, or anything, is not measured in the number of our days but the openness of our heart during this mysterious, majestic, magnificent and often messy Journey we call life.
It is my journey, and it is the Journey of Team Suzette.
It is one of learning and growing, not resisting and resenting.
It is one of opening in trust instead of contracting in fear.
It is a Journey of the heartand not of the body.
It is about Saying yes and not no, light and not darkness, and great opportunities and not great insults.
This is not a book about illness, but about great love, gratitude, and miracles
