Health and Wholeness

Spring 2010
This blog was also born out of a need to chronicle my journey back to health following a cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment in April of 2007.  I had been writing about my cancer journey on my CaringBridge site, but I came to the point where I needed to write about more than just the cancer;  I needed a place to write about life in general - they very thing that would bring healing and wholeness back into my world.  I kept feeling like working full-time was colliding with living out my core values:

• Worship God by caring for my body (getting enough rest, exercising, eating healthfully).
• Spend time with the Lord.
• Do the things I feel prompted to do.
• Exercise my gifts and abilities (sewing/creativity) as well as my spiritual gifts (prophecy & hospitality).
• Leave a legacy - time spent with family and friends as well as written legacies (this blog, hopefully a cookbook some day, a portfolio of my quilt projects, scrapbooks/photo albums, and written words of encouragement to others).

And so, at the end of January 2010, I took a leap of faith and quit my full-time job (a wonderful job with people I really, really enjoyed!!) so that I could return to being a self-employed seamstress and focus more on health and LIVING life.  It's been a crazy journey, but I am determined to live life, write about it and allow it to take me where it's supposed to, believing that one of the best ways to worship God is to be the truest version of the Andrea that He created.