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Only Love (Thank You Video & Prayer Request)

January 9, 2012 by allisonbenotafraid

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! It has been quite a while since I last wrote, and I’ve had so many beautiful, blessed experiences over the past month! While I long to share many of them with all of you, it was just so important for me and my family to merely relax and enjoy one another over the holiday season. We had a beautiful time talking, singing, watching movies, and just being together-reflecting on the past year and it’s […]

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Categories: Cancer, Faith, Music • Tags: Cancer, Christianity, Family, Friends, PET Scan

31 Days of Facing My Fears: Day 20-22 Facing the End of Things

October 22, 2011 by allisonbenotafraid

I’ve always struggled with change. Even as a little girl I’d spend a week after we returned from vacation crying in my bed at night over the fact that it had ended. After experiencing wonderful, memorable times, I had a hard time trusting that it would ever happen again. I still struggle to trust in the beauty of coming days. And I still lament the ending of happy days. After experiencing the ebb and tide of happy times, over and […]

Categories: 31 Days of Facing My Fears, Faith, Parenting, Relationships • Tags: Christianity, Friends, Life

31 Days of Facing My Fears: Day 13 Reaching Out

October 13, 2011 by allisonbenotafraid

Today I heard a beautiful word: remission. There is no evidence of active tumor in my chest, and no need at this time for radiation or further chemotherapy. In three months I will have another scan, but there is no reason to believe anything will change during that time. Praise God! I cannot thank you enough for your prayers and support, and I want to make my message simple today. My prayer for you is that you never hesitate to […]

Categories: 31 Days of Facing My Fears, Cancer, Faith, Relationships • Tags: Christianity, Family, Friends, Life

31 Days of Facing my Fears: Day 7 Opening Up My Idea of a Remarkable Life

October 8, 2011 by allisonbenotafraid

This is Eugene Sampson. Gene died this past August, at the age of 81, after living a life with many twists and turns, periods of darkness and light, and moments of fear and love. I only knew Gene for the last four years of his life, but the story of his life and our friendship made a great impact on me. Gene and I lived together at L’Arche, a faith-based non-profit where people with and without disabilities share life. We […]

Categories: 31 Days of Facing My Fears, Cancer, Faith, Parenting, Relationships • Tags: Christianity, Family, Fear, Friends, L'Arche, Life

31 Days of Facing my Fears: Day 5 Listening to My Heart

October 6, 2011 by allisonbenotafraid

Yesterday I attended a happy hour for young adults with cancer. It was my first time doing any kind of activity that was specifially for “people with cancer.” All day I was nervous. What would we talk about? Just cancer? Everything but cancer? Would it be depressing? Awkward? Too touchy-feely support group like (nothing against support groups-at the right time they can be wonderful)? Would going brand me as, “Allison, young adult with cancer,”? Would that be okay? Despite my […]

Categories: 31 Days of Facing My Fears, Cancer, Faith, Relationships • Tags: Christianity, Friends, Life, Poetry

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31 Days of Facing my Fears: Day 1 Be Not Afraid

October 1, 2011 by allisonbenotafraid

Until Valentine’s day this year, my greatest fear in life was getting cancer in my twenties. (I’ve always been terrified of cancer, and perhaps because of some sixth sense, or just because my mom fought and conquered cancer in her twenties, I’ve always worried it might also happen to me. Not that the worrying made the experience any easier!) But this year, just over two months before I turned twenty-seven and while 32 weeks pregnant with my first son, my […]

Categories: 31 Days of Facing My Fears, Cancer, Faith, Parenting • Tags: Christianity, Family, Fear, Friends, Hope, Life

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