My Latest Award!

This is my niece Allison Bullock who wins triathlons!

I won an award today, but before you go getting all excited for me or want to see how you can win one too, you might want to read more. This honor might not be one you want to receive, because you see it is not an accolade that I really want either. 

I went for my annual mammogram this morning and while there the doctor found some suspicious areas and wanted to have an ultrasound performed. While laying on the sterile bed, with my pretty pink robe opened and covered with goo used for the transducer, the hand-held device that sends out the waves which produce the picture, the technician declared that I had won the prize for the most cysts she had ever seen in a patient. How do you like that one! I guess the good part is that cysts are not usually dangerous, but still….

I have received other awards in my life that are much more prestigious than the one today, but there is a future award that I hope to obtain that will be more precious than anything received in the past or during this life. It is the verbal approval from my Lord and Savior when I meet Him at the end of my life.  If I hear the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant,” that will be my greatest reward. So my prayer today is that I run the race that God has planned for me in the way that will allow me to win the prize He has for me.  

By the way, I do have to go back next week for a biopsy, but in the meantime, I will just keep running toward the finish line. 

1 Corinthians 9:24 Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.

Matthew 25:21 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’”

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