I can't seem to get it off my mind what a dear friend said to me yesterday. She just found out that she has cancer and was having a double mastectomy. But the thing that keeps sticking in my brain is that she said before her surgery, since she couldn't have anything to eat after midnight, her husband was going to wake her up at 11:00 p.m. and they were going to share brownies and ice cream. I thought that was just about one of the sweetest things I had ever heard.
As women, we are sometimes defined by how we look, well maybe not sometimes...most of the time. It's hard to come to grips with the possibility of loosing parts that seem to define us as women. But, here at this moment, this woman was offered something, something that only someone who sees beyond the physical to the beauty of the woman inside can offer. Here her husband offered her more than brownies and ice cream. He offered her his love, his support and the fact that to him, she is worth more than her physical parts. I would say that this friend of mine, is a very lucky and blessed woman and I pray that she will recover quickly. I pray that the next time she has brownies and ice cream, it will be to celebrate!
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