Cheer Song 9/30/08

Here is a cheer song for the last day of September. I hope you have a great day!

There’s a Special Prayer – to the tune of There’s a Kind of Hush by Herman’s Hermits

There’s a special prayer
All over the world day & night
All over the world
You can hear the sounds of believers in prayer
You know what I mean

Two or more of us
Look to the Lord, our light
We pray for a cure and an end
To this long cancer fight

We listen to Him carefully
We’re closer now to see it come to an end
It’ll be over my friend
Then we will shout and we will cheer
That cancer’s cured, there’s no more fear
For ever and ever

There’s a special prayer
All over the world day & night
All over the world

Trusting through the Setbacks

I know that my last post was about victory. Well, there was a setback as far as things go physically. As you know, chemo and radiation can zap every ounce of energy in your body. One of my friends has been struggling with fever and infection since their last treatment. It is extremely discouraging when you're looking forward to being done with all that mess.

Even though it is a setback, I keep falling back on the fact that the Lord is faithful as well as sovereign. He sees the big picture when all we see is this small part. I want to share another "Cheer Song" in light of these times.

You Can’t Hurry God –(To the tune of the Supremes “You Can’t Hurry Love”)

I need God, God
To ease my mind
I need to trust Him to make me feel fine
And His word said

You can’t hurry God
No, you just have to wait
Life isn’t easy
You have to trust and have some faith

You can’t hurry God
No, you just have to wait
You’ve got to trust and give it time
No matter how long it takes

But how many treatments
Must I stand before I find a way
To feel good again
Right now the only thing
That keeps me hanging on
When I feel my strength, yeah
Is almost gone
I remember His word says:

You can’t hurry God
No, you just have to wait
Life isn’t easy
You have to trust and have some faith

You can’t hurry God
No, you just have to wait
Life isn’t easy
You have to trust and have some faith

Victory!

Today was my sister's last radiation treatment and my friend's last chemo treatment. They are
both cancer free! My sister has to go back for tests in October to make sure that everything is on target. Below is a cheer song written to the tune of the hymn "He Touched Me". It's basically the same as the hymn with a few words tweaked.

He Healed Me – to the tune of “He touched Me”

Shackled by a heavy burden
Beneath the load of cancer and pain
Then the hand of Jesus healed me
And now I am no longer the same

He healed me, yes he healed me
And all the joy that floods my soul
Something happened and now I know
He healed me and made me whole

Since I met that blessed savior
Oh, since he healed and made me whole
I will never cease to praise Him
I’ll shout it while eternity rolls

He healed me, yes he healed me
And all the joy that floods my soul
Something happened and now I know
He healed me and made me whole

A Song for the Weekend

I hope that each of you have a wonderful weekend. I pray that you will have much rest and relaxation. The song for today is to the tune of Louis Armstrong's "A Kiss to Build a Dream On".

A Healing to Build a Dream On - to the tune of Louis Armstrong’s “A Kiss to Build a Dream On”

Give me a healing to build my dreams on
And my determination will thrive upon my healing
Sweet Jesus, I ask no more than this
A healing to build my dreams on

Give me a healing so cancer leaves me
And my determination will feed my hungry heart
The prayer that is on my heart
A healing to build my dreams on

When I’m alone with my thoughts you say I’ll be with you”
Weaving my life’s story, making prayer come true

Give me your ear for just a moment
And my determination will make that moment live
Give me what you alone can give me
A healing to build a dream on

When I’m alone with my thoughts you say I’ll be with you”
Weaving my life’s story, making prayer come true

Give me a healing to build my dreams on
And my determination will thrive upon that healing
Sweet Jesus, I ask no more than this
A healing to build my dreams on

Ginny Owens

The Lord blesses my life continually. One of the biggest blessings was by giving me Ginny Owens as my niece. Ginny is a contemporary Christian singer. She has a new EP coming out. Listen and enjoy! While you're on her site take a look around. Read all about her and her songs. You will be encouraged and uplifted. Her site is www.ginnyowens.com

A New Hat Picture

Today I wanted to post the picture of Sue in her 2008 New Year's hat and outfit. Isn't it great? Sue has had an admirable spirit through this rugged journey. She has never questioned God as to why she has had to travel this road two times. Yes, she has been tired and discouraged. She has had to struggle with nausea, exhaustion, hair loss, painful and sensitive feet, and all the other "joys" that go along with cancer. She has never stopped trusing the Lord through it all. He has given her the strength to keep on keeping on. I am so thakful to call women like her and my sister, FRIENDS.

Today's Song

I hope that everyone had a great Labor Day. Today's song is written to the hymn "Onward Christian Soldiers". I hope you enjoy it.

Onward Cancer Fighting Drugs (to the tune of “Onward Christian Soldiers”)

Onward cancer fighting drugs do your job real well,
Send your troops down through the port,
Blitz those lumps to hell,
We know you are powerful, unified, and strong,
Get in there and fight your fight so all cancer will be gone.

Chorus:
Onward cancer fighting drugs do your job real well,
Send your troops down through the port
Blitz those lumps to hell!

"The Hat Lady"

One of the opportunities that I've had on this journey with my sister is to meet or hear about some women who have battled or are battling cancer. We had heard about "The Hat Lady" after a chemo session. This amazing lady had a reoccurrence of breast cancer after almost making it to the 5 year mark. When she lost her hair she decided to make a hat for various occassions, holidays, and sessions. We had seen some pictures of the hats and loved them. I wanted to meet this lady.

The Lord is so good. During one of the chemo's, my sister, niece, and I were talking when in walks the infamous "Hat Lady". I was so thrilled to meet her. Her name is Sue and she is one of the most uplifting people I've ever met. We all talked about perhaps doing a website with cheer songs, displaying her hats, recipes, etc. I've been keeping a notebook of the songs and pictures of Sue's hats but life has been so hectic, I didn't see how to get a book together and copied. I decided last week to start this blog. I will from time to time include pictures of Sue's hats. They'll make you smile and admire her fabulous creativity. Enjoy the first one !

The First Song

When I started writing Cheer Songs in March, I started with children's songs since I sang them every day with my kids at school. This first song I spread out over 10 days. It goes to the tune of
"The Ants Go Marching".

The Drugs Go Marching
1.The drugs go marching one by one, Hurrah, Hurrah!
The drugs go marching one by one, Hurrah, Hurrah!
The drugs go marching one by one, They won't let cancer have any fun,
And they all go marching down through the port to kill all of the cancer..Pow, Pow,Pow!

2. They’re knocking out cancer from your head to your shoes…
3. To make sure _______is cancer free…
4. Making sure _______ has cancer no more…
5. They’ll keep no cancer cell alive…
6. They’ll vanquish all of cancer’s tricks…
7. Their engines are on, their motors revving…
8. Every cancer cell they’ll obliterate…
9. They’ll leave no cancer cell behind…
10.They won’t let cancer come back again…