My friend, Janessa

I suppose silence can be golden, but this blogging reprieve doesn’t mean I’ve come up with a really great story (though there is a potentially embarrassing one of myself that I could share, but I’ve got to keep some things to myself).

Rather, I want to mention my friend, Janessa. We met in D.C. about 6 or 7 years ago and became fast friends. Really, though, she becomes fast friends with most people she meets. She’s definitely a one-of-a-kind-gal. About a year ago, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and she was only 28 at the time. Additionally, and the most scary for those who know and love her, she was just a few months pregnant with her second child.

Through much prayer and supplication on behalf of our heavenly father, she made it through, and her little boy is a strapping young 6-month old, healthy, vibrant, and very much alive. Janessa is still undergoing treatment and obviously could use additional prayer.

Good Morning Texas, a news program in Dallas, interviewed her. If you care to watch the interview, go to http://www.wfaa.com/parent/, scroll down and then click on the link that says “pregnant with breast cancer link” - - you don’t get a true sense of her jovial personality, but you’ll see little glimpses of it.