Lorna J Ross

I'm not sure exactly why…. But I don't want to spell cancer with a 'c', like everybody else does. I'm going to use a 'k'! It's so much prettier to look at with a 'k', "kancer". Maybe the 'c' is to close a circle for me and I don't want to just keep going around and around aimlessly, I want purpose and meaning…. and peace! I noticed my 'K' is grounded firmly in the middle of it by "our Lords cross" and it even becomes an anchor if you look hard enough for it! At least that is what I see, when I write kancer with a 'K'. And that comforts me, never will I leave you or forsake you! I'm no longer a drift in a C's vast and crippling fear and intense anger! The storm of all storms, "cancer" with a 'c'! Wave after wave of sorrows and regrets….. Through many years of loss in my life of those we loved. I've made peace with my kancer so that happiness can thrive and flourish! I choose to be content and grateful that peace can fill my heart and that love be nurtured in my life, rather than the anger and resentment that shuts out the very joy and happiness I had long been searching for. Yes, my anchor holds! Thank you, Jesus, your truth has set me free of the storm and I rest on and on in calm waters of your peace and love that hold me! I am content, I am loved! I am not worthy of such a grand life as I have been given and am humbled to have been surrounded by such a wonderful people all of my life! What joy I feel just to think that I have shared my life with all of them, each and gift from you, a treasure. I'd like to have a t-shirt made, maybe it can help my family somehow. I know how much they are hurting and that I am the cause, now but maybe if they see my perspective it can help them through too! Give them purpose and meaning and peace also. Death is certain in our lives and by your grace we can be held in love all the way through it, unto healing….. contentment….. and peace….. in our hearts and minds! And our soles! I would like to completely re-invent the meaning of the word, at least for us who have been so strongly impacted all of our lives with this kancer! –Lorna J Ross, 2018

Lorna Ross was survived by her husband Timothy Ross; sons Ryan and Scott (AJ) Ross; daughter Danielle (Brett) Estep; sisters, Juanita (Glenn) Williams, Nellie (Lee) Page, and Cindy (Sonia) Vega Shutts; and her two grandsons Braydon and Jayce.