Welcome!
I am so glad you found me.
Rita Ann
The mission of my blog is to encourage all seeking insights to fight their latest battle and to…
Hope
Believe
and Fight
for a miraculous outcome.
My new book HOPE is available for purchase.
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Blog Posts
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At times, we face losing something, gaining something and accepting the new uninvited normal. Within these events, we need to make decisions. I decided that in order to move into my healing I had to confront fear, step out in faith into unknown outcomes while trusting and believing that I would live to tell about it.
The ninth child of Betty and Ivan, in a family of ten, I grew up in a time when society seemed far less complicated. I am now married to Jim and we are empty nesters with three grown children that have graduated into their own life adventures. My pancreas cancer story started in February of 2018. Since that time, my husband, Jim and I have beat this disease. This blog tells the story of how we faced a giant and found peace and victory.
No matter the challenging life event you face, my prayer is that this blog helps you successfully walk through your distressing valley by listening to yourself, your body, your faith and approach it with positivity, faith, courage and strength one day at a time while finding purpose, meaning and a life that exceeds your expectations. This is my healing story.
Peace to you,
Rita
Book of Hope
I wrote my book, Hope, as a response to fellow travelers that were moved to hope for their own outstanding outcome upon hearing my story of healing from pancreatic cancer. While sharing my walk down the pathway to healing, I disclosed my range of emotions from doubt to hope, from anger to joy and the full gamut of emotions that anyone encounters when they face a trial like this. I shared how I eventually surrendered to the process, put my trust in God and faced my foe with hope and belief for an outstanding outcome. And because of God’s great love, mercy and kindness, I am here today to talk about it.
The Road of Life
Life involves a series of challenges and choices, victories and let downs. It seems that I consistently forget this. Over and over again…
Knowing God through Jesus
…My desire is to help others to know Jesus so that they too can have eternal life and so that Jesus can bring abundance even in the hard places. Psalms 65:11 NLT “You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.”…
The warrior in me
…I picked up my battle fatigues and put them on with the knowledge that most people fall in the battlefield of pancreatic cancer, I was just beginning to understand what it meant for me to be in this army…
Walk by faith
…"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety." …
Mayo…a new experience
…I was still angry about this condition that appeared to be forced on me like a new bully on the street as I walked to school. It didn't seem fair. I didn't seem like it was an outcome my healthy efforts had produced. I wanted to know what I did wrong…
The dragon slayer
…This is where I learned that his father died of this cruel disease in his arms. I also found that one of his patients named him the “Dragon Slayer of Pancreatic Cancer”…
What just happened?
…I don’t want to listen to anyone after receiving the news from the surgeon. I don’t want this to be me. I don’t want to be a patient. I want this to be a bad dream…
Winter is here
…About five minutes into our consultation with the local surgeon, he tells me to go home and get my affairs in order….