This is IT

"Overture, curtains, lights,
This is it, the night of nights
No more rehearsing and nursing a part
We know every part by heart
Overture, curtains, lights
This is it, you'll hit the heights
And oh what heights we'll hit
On with the show this is it

Tonight what heights we'll hit
On with the show this is it"

I used to love the Bugs Bunny show. Now I feel like I'm living the overture song. I can't believe I am in this place in my life, but you know what? God is going before me, and He knows the way I take -- there are NO surprises for Him. He knows my beginning from the end.

When I was 15, I wrote my first song, "He Has Made Everything Beautiful." Over the years I performed it, but never fully understood the meaning of it until now. It is based on Ecclesiastes 3:11-15. It is for this time in my life.

"He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from beginning to the end."

I don't know what God is up to, but I know He will make it beautiful. He will make this crisis in my life beautiful in its time. I know that with all my heart. I trust my Father in heaven with all my heart.

Today, as I was in Nuclear Medicine preparing to have four needles inserted into my breast, I spoke these words: "I'm Daddy's brave little girl." These words are from the movie "Ruby Bridges," which I watched yesterday. Coincidence that I watched it yesterday? I think not. I am my God's brave little girl, who can do anything with her father's help.

I'm going to bed. Night. This is it -- on with the show, this is it.

Love to all and to all a good night.

deb
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