In case you missed it, last week Punky was interviewed by Jeff and Rebecca, morning radio co-hosts on KCBI (90.9 FM), regarding her 6th anniversary of being breast cancer free! Her words are encouraging, inspiring and life-giving to anyone going through a difficult season in...
A dear friend of mine died last week. Someone I grew up with. We went all through school together, and as adults, worshiped together at the same church in Orlando until John and I moved to Dallas. He died suddenly - an “aortic rupture”. I...
I don’t think there has ever been a woman more surprised by motherhood than Sarah. You know, Sarah: the beautiful wife of Abraham, the patriarch of our faith. Sarah- the one who doubted that God could or would actually do what He’d said He would...
There's no experience on earth quite as extraordinary as being in love. To love someone and know that you are loved and desired by that someone is an intoxicating high that no substance can come close to reproducing. In love we live differently, we think...
“Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” I Samuel 3:9 How is God speaking to you? A better question might be, “How are you listening to God?” I believe God is always speaking to us, but do we hear Him? Are we listening for Him? I’m not talking about...
Five. For cancer survivors that number is like the Mt. Everest of milestones. Statistics prove that reaching that mark without a recurrance represents so much more in terms continuing to survive and thrive after cancer. So, I’ve reached five…and that’s a good thing. Five is...
October 30, 2014 "Making the Most of YOUR Now!" Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:15-16 (NIV) In January 2006, Dr. John Piper was diagnosed with prostate cancer. On the eve...
At what point does one officially become a cancer survivor? I believe that anyone who has had cancer is a survivor from the very moment they receive the diagnosis. News like that could have literally scared me to death. But it didn’t. Then I began thinking...
“You have cancer.” That’s a sentence that will strike fear in your heart. Cancer is one of those “Goliath” kinds of things- big, looming, loud, threatening. For anyone who hears the word cancer associated with his or her own name it’s flat out scary- even for...
It’s October. The first full month of autumn. The month that brings us cooler weather, a beautiful change of color in the trees, the World Series, pumpkin everything… and lots and lots of PINK, reminding us that October is also “Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” I...