Power of Pink

When I was first diagnosed with cancer, my sisters and mom ran out and started buying every pink ribbon item they could get their hands on.  Although pink has always been my favorite color, I didn't want to see anything pink, wear anything pink or even hear the word pink for a long long time.  I just didn't want to think about having cancer on the days that I wasn't in treatment, recoverying from treatment or recovering from surgery.  I just wanted to be the old me on those days....not the new cancer patient me.  I felt bad for this attitude because I feared that if I didn't stop feeling that way that God wouldn't be able to use me for whatever he was planning to use me for. Well by the grace of God, I now love pink again, lol, and will go to every Pink event for breast cancer that I can possibly go to!  Friday night my family and I headed to Tuscaloosa to the Power of Pink Gymnastics Meet.  We love our BAMA no matter what sport it is and especially when they are sporting for our cause!  It was breathtaking walking up to the Colosieum all lit up in pink and everywhere you looked you saw pink tshirts and the occasional pink feather boa (like mine!).  We arrived in time to see the pre game ceremonies where they honored several breast cancer survivors and then asked all of us to stand and be recognized.  Sometimes I have a problem with that because I didn't do anything special...I'm just a girl who had cancer.  God deserves all the glory for me surviving it!  Then I am reminded that the more I wear pink and pink ribbons and allow myself to be recognized as a survivor, the more I CAN glorify God by telling my story and all that he did for me and my family!  So pink it up Survivors!  Wherever you are, wherever you go....wear someting to identify yourself as a survivor and maybe you will be blessed with a divine appointment and meet someone who needs to know about Jesus and how the Lord saves....both physically here on earth and eternally!