God I have EVERYTHING to be thankful for........I want Jesus Christ daily to help me stay moving in God's love, in HIS spirit....pure and holy. Tears of thanksgiving....not only are we all forgiven children of the most high KING, we are truly BLESSED.....we have the gift of eternal life! Today marks Natalia's two year anniversary since she had her cancer surgery in 2013!!! What a beautiful reminder of our Lord Jesus' GRACE to our family in the midst of hardship and suffering. Our hearts are overwhelmed with gratefulness and joy!!! We render our hearts to the Lord and thank him for not only delivering Natalia Sofia from cancer, but for HIS strength, peace, shield, comfort faithfulness and so much more. Natalia Sofia is a walking miracle by the GRACE of the ALMIGHTY GOD!! Our lives are full of daily miracles.....if you stopped long enough to reflect and look around you...you WILL see the Miracles of God in your life!! Thank you Jesus for ALL that you have been for us...and ALL that you will continue to do!! Amen Hebrews 12:28-29  Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire. Psalm 28:7 –The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him. Psalm 69:30 I will praise the name of God with song, And shall magnify Him with thanksgiving. Psalm 95:1-6 – O Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the LORD is a great God, And a great King above all gods, In whose hand are the depths of the earth; The peaks of the mountains are His also. The sea is His, for it was He who made it; And His hands formed the dry land. Come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. Psalm 107:29-32 – He caused the storm to be still, So that the waves of the sea were hushed. Then they were glad because they were quiet; So He guided them to their desired haven. Let them give thanks to the LORD for His lovingkindness, And for His wonders to the sons of men! Let them extol Him also in the congregation of the people, And praise Him at the seat of the elders. 1 Chronicles 16:8 – Oh give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; Make known His deeds among the peoples.

When your child goes to bed, and Thanks Jesus for another day on this earth......because she KNOWS what it's like to walk the fine line between life and death, and recognizing GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY over our lives, you can't help but being grateful......even when your child is diagnosed with cancer. Grateful because JESUS provided the strength, the light, the peace, the comfort, the anchor, the refuge, the healing, the people, the surgeon, the doctors, the nursing staff, the WORD, HE has NOT hidden HIS MIGHTY hand during our journey.....and so much MORE!!!! Our baby girl is still here on this earth, and she still has her leg!!!! With God's help, she has jumped so many hurdles!!! Soooo grateful to Jesus!! There is just praise and Thankfulness welling up in our hearts....we praise you, Father God....in all your sovereignty you have kept Natalia in the palm of your hands. Jesus, you made her an OVERCOMER, you've given her wisdom and maturity BEYOND her years, we PRAISE YOU, even when we can't see the other side. For your word declares that we should give THANKS IN ALL circumstances! YES, ALL. Even cancer. A childhood cancer diagnosis will line up your priorities and put EVERYTHING in perspective realquick. But we are ALL called to DO EVERYTHING THROUGH CHRIST, WHO GIVES US THE STRENGTH WE NEED to get through it!!!!! HE IS OUR SOURCE!!!! In the past weeks, we have had a series of labs, diagnostic testing, follow-ups, and re-tests. The doctors wanted to remove her tonsils to get rid of the strep colony and we decided to wait. Her re-tests today came back NEGATIVO!!!!! Praise God!!!!! After fighting for so long, today's test showed no sign of uti or strep!!! Her labs, and annual heart check were also negative so far.......we are still waiting one more test result. We are just praying for her immune system to strengthen. This weekend, although we covered her in repellant, she got bit by a mosquito on her forehead, and eye lid. Her eye has been swollen, and the swelling was moving down her cheek. This morning, I took her in for her follow up, and she was diagnosed with Peri orbital cellulitis. If her swelling doesn't go down by tomorrow am, we MUST start antibiotics. The doctor was concerned with compromising her eye. She was put on a prescribed Benadryl medication that has helped her swelling go down a lot! Father God, in the name of Jesus, we ask that your MIGHTY HEALING HAND touch Natalia's eye. Lord, heal her and give her body what it needs. We trust in you and believe in your word. Your word is truth, and sharper than any two edge sword. You reign over her....may your will be done in her life. We Thank you, Jesus, once again. We can come to you for anything, Lord. May we never forget the lessons learned through our journey, and where you have delivered us from. YOU are the one true KING. Worthy of our upmost praise. Thank you Jesus, for you delivered Natalia from cancer, and breathed life into her as you saw fit. My soul knows well.... Amen 1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ! 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Rejoice always! Pray constantly. Give thanks in everything, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. Psalm 72:18-19 May the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonders, be praised. May His glorious name be praised forever; the whole earth is filled with His glory. Amen and amen.

Having had a child with cancer, you live holding your breath every three months when her scans are due, holding your breath with the ever lasting aches and pains of this journey. Knowing that the threat is always there, but choosing to trust in her creator, Jesus for everything. God is the ANCHOR that holds us close to HIMSELF, and I am extremely grateful for that. For without that, I would have perished amid the journey. The last couple of days are a blur, Natalia went to the ER for several things, and today she followed up with her surgeon for the nodule that was prominent on her affected leg. The surgeon assured us that she has had a sudden growth spurt, and because she is walking more she is leaner and thinner........and alas! The hardware was palpated. T. H. A. N. K. You JESUS!!!! Thank you for all of your prayers, for the prayers of a righteous people AVAIL MUCH!

Natalia went for her follow up on Friday and she is STILL positive for strep AND urinary tract infection. She had cellulitis a few times, but she's cleared of those infections. She has been on antibiotics for over 30 days and she is still fighting two infections. Due to her treatment, she's become resistant to most antibiotics. She has been having bone and chest pain for months....and there appears to be no relief for her little body. The AMAZING thing is....she looks awesome,...on the outside! I really believe it is the GRACE of GOD that makes her strong....MORE than STRONG! She is a CONQUEROR, an OVERCOMER, because HE IS THE ONE THAT GIVES HER THE STRENGTH TO GET THROUGH! GOD-STRONG! The MIRACLE of GOD's mighty POWER at work IN HER! HIS POWER IS PERFECTED IN HER WEAKNESS! The past two days have been a roller coaster to say the least. She's had a ton of blood work done, and doctor follow ups. MORE appointments and tests are on the horizon. After her appointments on Friday, we were sitting on the couch, laughing and enjoying our "down" time together after a long, busy day....when I put my hand right on her left leg and felt a hard lump on her lower femur bone, above her knee........time stood still........FOR ALL OF US. The next day we were at the pediatrician's having him feel the lump. He said he felt strongly that it was a calcified hematoma, and that I needed to give the oncologist and the surgeon a call. In my weakness, HIS Grace shall be all I need for TODAY, and I shall NOT BE ANXIOUS ABOUT ANYTHING, but in EVERYTHING, WITH THANKSGIVING, present your requests unto The Lord! And THEN.....THE PEACE OF GOD WILL GUARD MY HEART AND MIND! Philippians 4:6-7 No words to express our gratitude for having our Natalia Sofia with us! Thanking our Lord, Jesus Christ for his never changing faithfulness....for HIS power is made perfect in my weaknesses! FOCUSING ON WHAT IS UNSEEN. For our MOMENTARY LIGHT AFFLICTION is producing for us incomparable eternal weight! Praise Jesus!!! HIS GRACE is suffice! For HIS POWER is perfected in MY WEAKNESS! HIS POWER resides in me! FOR THAT IS WHEN I AM STRONG!!! Thankful for your undeserving GRACE...... 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore, I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me. So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastrophes, persecutions, and in pressures, because of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong. Philippians 4:6-7 Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses every thought, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Definition of God's Grace – How do theologians define it? "What is grace? In the New Testament grace means God’s love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. Grace means God sending His only Son to descend into hell on the cross so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven. ‘(God) hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him’" (2 Corinthians 5:21).1 2 Corinthians 4:10, 15-18 We always carry the death of Jesus in our body, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. Indeed, everything is for your benefit, so that grace, extended through more and more people, may cause thanksgiving to increase to God’s glory. Therefore we do not give up. Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day. For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.