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Meet Tenora
We met her when her wounds were still scabs. When this 43-year old single mother of 2 told our group her story . . . she wept. We wept too. This young woman named Tenora had endured more in one year than all of us had in a lifetime. She told us about her two children Kameron age 10 and Kaleb age 7. She told us that in 2011 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She told us about the many weeks of aggressive chemotherapy treatments and how she had tried so hard to be strong for her boys. She told us how overwhelming it had been to do it all alone – to manage doctors appointments, handle all the side effects, continue the necessity of full-time work, and still be a present and loving mother to two children who needed her desperately.
It was overwhelming.
She recalled to us a time when she remembered not caring if God took her life. The disease that had invaded her body was taking a toll on her mind and heart. Instead of giving up, Tenora decided her only option was to turn her eyes and attention to God. She knew there wasn't a way out of her situation without His help and His strength. She could not survive this journey on her own. She prayed and He answered her prayers by lifting her up and carrying her through the pain and dark shadows that cancer so often casts.
Slowly she healed.
Slowly her hair grew back.
With time, she could see her boy’s faces without looking through the tears in her eyes. She told us how as painful as the cancer had been in her and her family's life, it was all worth it because of what she gained as a result of getting up close and personal with God.
Tenora praised God for bringing her through the storm and she was able to clearly see His mercy to her.
Our group was there when Tenora was baptized professing her faith in Jesus Christ. We listened and encouraged her when she talked about her dream of starting a nonprofit organization called "Rays of Hope Foundation" which would help single women like her going through cancer.
And we were there when she recently told us that the cancer was back.
The double mastectomy was scheduled just a few days later. While she was still recovering from one surgery she was scheduled for another. The doctor informed her that he would implant a port, a small disc about the size of a quarter, surgically inserted just under the skin between the collarbones. This port would provide an opening to her bloodstream for 12 weeks and the poison would run wild and wreck havoc on her body and her life. She knew this chemo monster well and it isn’t welcome again in her body - in her life.
We had no words.
So we pray.
We pray that the kids don't go to sleep at night worrying about whether their mother will be there for them in the morning.
We pray that her bills will get paid even thought she can't face opening them.
We pray that God will carry her as He did before.
We pray that she doesn't have to work through treatments.
We pray that she can take a day at a time and not worry about tomorrow.
We pray that God will show up bigger and better than He did before.
We pray that if you are reading this that you will help by praying for Tenora and if you are moved to help financially, we challenge you to think of one thing you can give up for 12 weeks, the length of time Tenora will spend in chemo. Instead of buying that one thing every week, please consider donating the money to pay for Tenora's expenses. If everyone who reads this, could give up the cost of 12 cups of coffee or 12 meals or 12 gallons of gas or even just 12 dollars. Every little (or big) bit helps.
We pray that you will be moved to make a difference in Tenora's story.
Sincerely,
Tenora's Team - a group of women that God put in her life to help her along her journey.
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