God's wonderful children

Well it's the night before my surgery and I am so at peace. It has been a hectic day - getting everything ready at work for me to possibly be gone 3 weeks...but so good to know things are in order. I have received so many emails, cards and phone calls from dear friends and family assuring me of their prayers! Even friends of my son - people I haven't even met, but we share a bond in Christ! How marvelous God's grace is to surround me with the prayers of His children.
And He has provided so wonderfully for me. Once they remove the tumor, lymph node and part of the lung - there will be a pathologist there to immediately determine if it is cancer. If it is then they will be able to remove the lower lobe and possibly the whole lung if needed without a second operation. I am also going to be in a research study. They are trying to find a marker in the blood for lung cancer (like the PSA test for prostate cancer). If it isn't cancer, they will follow me for 2 years, if it is for 5 years. It would be so wonderful if they were able to identify this so that one day they could catch lung cancer even sooner.

Here is the verse that I am clinging to: “But this precious treasure—this light and power that now shine within us—is held in perishable containers, that is, in our weak bodies. So everyone can see that our glorious power is from God and is not our own. We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed and broken. We are perplexed, but we don’t give up and quit. We are hunted down, but God never abandons us. We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going. Through suffering, these bodies of ours constantly share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies.” 2 Corinthians 4:7-10

Please pray with me that I will keep shining God's light and power so that everyone I come in contact with at the hospital will see Christ in me.