Wow where do I start? It has been almost six months since this storm started, and I would not change a thing! God has been so faithful to us!!! August 6, 2007 was a day we will never forget. Rodney collapsed on the football field during practice. He was life flighted to Children's Hospital in Columbus. He was unable to speak or move his right side. The enemy thought to crush the Lens' family, but he did not know the army of prayer soldiers that would arise and go into the battle. It looked dark when the doctor said this was caused by a cancerous tumor and not only does one son have it but we have to check your other son because they are identical twins and it is a possibility that he may have it too.

August 8th started out with fear for me and I knew that I had to get alone with my Heavenly Father. He led me to Isaiah 32:6, "For the foolish person will speak foolish... to utter error against the Lord,..." (and) 2 Corinthians 5:7, "For we walk by faith not by sight."

I walked into my son's ICU room quoting these scriptures over and over and over. It was the only way I could go in there without falling apart.

Several mornings later sitting on the side of my bed at the Ronald McDonald House, praying, telling God that I didn't understand, God spoke and told me that he would raise Rodney up. Several weeks later, Rodney wrote on his board that "God told me in a dream that He was going to raise me up."

Since then, we have gone through 31 treatments of radiation and pneumonia with pleurisy at the same time. Rodney was so sick he couldn't eat or drink. He had IV fluids and an NG tube to help nourish him. Anyone who came into his room left knowing that he trusted God completely. I told him that I would gladly take the radiation treatments and the pneumonia but he said, "NO, this is my battle!"

The pneumonia was not responding to the antibiotic and they were going to do surgery to remove it one Saturday in September.

The surgery was scheduled and on that day was canceled, God was touching Rodney and the pneumonia was clearing up. One doctor said that the surgery had only been postponed, but I told him that it had been canceled. The doctor did not believe me.