It took a bit of convincing from Marc to get me to agree to a blog to chronicle this journey with breast cancer and as a way to keep family and friends in the loop. I find it hard to write sometimes. What value is there in sharing this? Our culture is already so voyeuristic and so spectator oriented. Do I want to add to that? What good is an informational blog listing medications, side effects, doctor’s appointments. The real stuff of cancer is happening in my heart. Where is my hope? Where is my faith? Where is God? Then there is the concern with whether I am communicating clearly what God has revealed about himself in Scripture, what I believe about God and his ways, and what he is working in my heart through this situation.
Anyway, there will probably be several posts this week as I process many things that have been in my heart since about last Tuesday.
“For we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not us.”
2Corinthians 4:7
I appreciate all your comments and am reading each one.
Grace to you,
jane
On the Greisen Side of Life 
It is good for me to hear your thoughts…..so I look forward to the things that you will share this week…thanks.
Dear Jane,
Writing a blog about your journey with cancer is about so much more than exposing yourself. It will bring you into community of caring and compassion- people who understand what you are going through and want to support you during your dark times.
warm regards,
Jenny
Dear Jane,
I have been following your blog since it was posted on Facebook. I have a number of blogs that I follow via my “Google Reader” and look forward to the days when there is an update from “…On the Greisen Side of Life.”
While your blog might be read by many friends and family, it might be most powerful and meaningful to those that don’t even know you! When I suffered a miscarriage earlier this year, I found comfort in reading blogs written by women who had gone through a similar experience. Reading about their journeys – the loss, mourning, rebuilding, and future successful pregnancies…. I didn’t feel alone. (I’m not sure that ‘alone’ is the right word, but I am struggling finding another one…)
Maybe your blog is helping someone not feel so… alone (?) in their battle with breast cancer?
I look forward to reading about your hope, your faith, God, and whatever else you write about during this process!!!
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. – 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (ESV)
Thanks for sharing your journey!