one day at a time.

I work for the American Cancer Society. Some of you know this and some may not have known until now. My job title is community representative. My job description is to create a relationship with a community, share the services ACS has to offer, educate on how to do all you can to prevent cancer for yourself through good choices, to honor and support survivors and to encourage the community to dig in and help us fight this horrible thing called cancer. A large part of how ACS is able to fund so much life saving research and all the other services they have to offer is through events such as Relay For Life. I am part of those events taking place. I find people with a passion to see this fight end with a cure. I train and lead them to create an amazing overnight event that will celebrate and honor survivors, bring closure to those who have lost loved ones to cancer, and raise money to fight back through education and research. So, there are days where I am unsure if I will be able to do enough to reach the goals that need to be met to put an end to it all. When we are in trainings as a staff we are reminded we need to instill a sense of urgency without causing panic and axiety. I am not always good at doing that with myself so I worry my volunteers will read my face. Then today as I was talking with a committee that is amazing but starting to get that panic and axiety look it came to me. We are at the place in our journey to our event that is a mirror to the place where a cancer patient finds themself after that first treatment or even every treatment; the place where they doubt themselves. I can't keep going, I am to tired, this is too hard, it would be easier to throw in the towel then push forward, I don't know enough and I don't think I have it in me. Well, wham it hit me. Yes, we really need to get to 30 teams not just to hit goal but to help more people through research. I said to them we need to all get up every day with the determination that we will do our very best today to make a difference. We fight for each day just like a cancer patient is fighting every day. We can only win one day at a time if we are pushing to win today then we will win in the end. You see tomorrow never comes it is always today. We can't change the past and we can't see the future so today we need to do all we can and the whole thing will come together as a cure for cancer. SO, today I am determined to move into the mind set of I will do all I can no matter how hard the battle is and with God's strength and the support of voluteers I will stand in the face of cancer and say YOU WILL NOT TAKE US DOWN! Join me where ever you are there is an event find it at http://www.relayforlife.org/ If you want to join me at one of my events you will find me at www.relayforlife.org/winterparkfl www.realyforlife.org/westorangefl www.relayforlife.org/baldwinparkfl www.relayforlife.org/goldenrodfl
Come support me and help me celebrate more survivors and more birthdays!!!!