A lot can happen...

I haven't blogged in exactly a year. Well, at least not HERE. And a lot can happen in a year.

Like A LOT.

January 2010 marked the end of an amazing up and down year living in Australia. Moving half way around the world to be closer to someone I loved deeply.... major high. The devastation and loss from the breakup that came 6 weeks after I arrived.... complete and utter low. Having the opportunity to travel for 2 months and meet new friends along the way to recover from a broken heart.... nothing compares "high." (I mean really, how many people get to do that after a major breakup). And then, after settling in Sydney for 7 months, I had to leave a place that became my home away from home.... another total low. But that low transitioned into a quick high after a 16 hour flight home reunited with friends and family I had missed for the past year. Unfortunately, that high was short lived.

2 weeks after I arrived home, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 Breast Cancer. Ouch. Yeah, that came out of nowhere. Not exactly the "welcome home" I was looking for. Within a few weeks of my diagnosis I started 18 weeks of chemotherapy. About a month after finishing chemo, I had a mastectomy followed by radiation therapy for 7 and a half weeks (which I'm currently undergoing).

Despite all the craziness that I've encountered these past 2 years, my faith and trust in God has been challenged. And as a result, it has grown and flourished. Jesus has been my rock through all of this. People, believers and non-believers, have noticed. And that, my friends, is what it's all about.