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    WHAT'S A SABBATICAL? It is a spiritual discipline of voluntarily “fasting” from work/ministry that, like a fast from food, enables one to rest and contemplate one’s identity away from their ministry, the value of their vocation, and to rest and recover one’s spirit as if one has been on a century (100 mile)…

Good morning and happy palindrome day! What's a palindrome, you say? A palindrome is GK transliteration that literally means "running back again". It's a word, or sequence of numbers that can be read left to right or right to left. Think of the name "Hannah" or "racecar" or the third Sunday of February's (Feb. 20,…

"Hey, Bob - stand next to me!" He was looking straight at me, but I turned around and looked for Bob. "Who are you talking to?" "You - isn't that your name: Bob Hu?" Then he explained, the other day on the bus, someone asked, "Where's Bob?" and since there were two Bob's on the…

  Survivor Day. The National Cancer Survivor’s Day Foundation defines a survivor as “anyone living with a history of cancer – from the moment of diagnosis through the remainder of life.” It was on February 28th, 2020, that I got that diagnosis, and March 1st of that year was the start of my Survivorship. That’s…

COVID UPDATE: “Convalescence,” I wrote in December, “means ‘a gradual recovery of strength and health after a sickness’”. It has been three months since COVID pneumonia attacked, and I am 95% normal. This morning, I “old man jogged” on a treadmill for 15 minutes, then swam 1,000 yards in the pool. When I’m on the…

Ever heard of these … “It’s darkest just before it goes pitch black.” “That light at the end of a tunnel? It’s an on-coming train.” “Maybe the purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others?” “Whenever things are going your way, you're in the wrong lane.”   It’s “graveyard” irony, but…

The funny thing about this blog is that it was always intended for our visitors, members, and regular attenders to peek behind the curtain and get more perspective on life at Grace. For a while, this was kind of “my” blog (Sean) and it documented my own thoughts about my non-Hodgkins lymphoma journey. I knew…

Sean and Brenda at the end of chemotherapy.     UPDATE: It has been one month since my last chemotherapy session. Things are returning to "normal": my hair is growing back, my gut is less bloated (but I still can't wear some of my pants), the neurop   athy is fading,…

I purposely have tried to walk away from talking about my cancer journey on this blog because – heavens! – that’s all I talked about! I’ve attempted different posts, but none really shined.   But today is rather special and I thought a short note would be appropriate.   July 14, 2020, was the day…