Author Archives: Dan

My First Surgery

Previous Post in this Series: The Treatment Plan This is where it all got real. I was wheeled into an operating room, a place I had never been before and hoped that I’d never go. I was scared. Surgery meant that this [...]
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The Treatment Plan

Previous Post in this Series: Another Battle – No Health Insurance So here I was. Newly diagnosed with cancer, no health insurance, and only 3 weeks into my new job. The Job The first thing that needed to happen was that I needed [...]
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Not Forgetting Where I Came From

This coming Saturday I will be driving up to Gatesville, TX to attend a volunteer training so that I can be a part of our church’s prison ministry. I attended the church’s training a few months back. That’s a strange [...]
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Another Battle – No Health Insurance

Previous Post in this Series: The Diagnoses – Esophageal Cancer As if being told that you have cancer is not bad enough there was another battle brewing in the midst. We did not have health insurance. I’d like to say that [...]
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He is the God of the Little Things Too

I spent a good portion of yesterday crunching on this task for a project that I am working on for a client. It seemed that no matter which angle I tried to attack this task that I could never get [...]
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The Diagnoses – Esophageal Cancer

Previous Post in this Series: Having Cancer as a Christian “The biopsy came back positive, you have cancer of the esophagus” the doctor said as I sat in the hospital bed. The words were unreal. Here is was, 34 years old, [...]
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Having Cancer as a Christian

It is weird to sit here and think about everything that has happened in the last few months. In life you hear of other people who go through difficult times in your life but you never really know what is [...]
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Growing in God by Getting Involved

Over 2 years ago I wrote a post on this blog on how I was stepping out and getting involved in church again. The ministry that I had volunteered for was the media ministry. I went to a meeting and [...]
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Christian Perspective on the Financial Crisis

I feel that it is time that I chimed in on the current financial crisis that is gripping the world. I think that I am not alone in my concern about the future and while I have not been [...]
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New Theme Here at the Abundant Life

I have uploaded a new theme here at the Abundant Life. I had been having several different issues with the previous theme so this one not only looks better but it should funtion better as well.  Please let me know if [...]
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