River Prayer
CherylRostekBlog2025-05-10T10:22:57-07:00Find me by the River By Cheryl Rostek Dec 2023 Find me by the river With my heart laid bare Find me by the river There’s so much hope flowing there Find me by the
Thin Places
CherylRostekBlog2024-02-21T12:13:15-08:00Introduction When glioblastoma thrust me close to death I was intimately aware of the Divine. She was readily within reach; I touched the corner of Her cloak. Brain cancer had transported me to a “thin
Advent Letter 2023
CherylRostekBlog2023-12-07T13:03:03-08:00“I’m very delighted to be with you in Advent. I look forward to hearing why it is ‘just the best ' for you :)” Lorie, my former spiritual director, now facilitator of a spiritual circle
We Must Get Home
CherylRostekBlog2023-11-15T12:53:09-08:00Anxiety Anxiety found me yesterday, making it difficult to cook dinner, squeezing my chest and this time churning in my gut. How odd my jaw is relaxed I think. As I try to determine the
Vault Opening Day
CherylRostekBlog2022-10-27T11:01:41-07:00Party Time! It is my twins’ seventh birthdays. The celebration is a weeklong affair inclusive of two friend parties, two family parties, too much cake and lots of spent wrapping paper. The mood in our
Cheryl’s October 2021 Brain Cancer Bulletin
CherylRostekBlog2021-10-27T12:25:35-07:00Hi Friends! I’m SO excited you’re joining me today! This post was supposed to be a Thanksgiving post. But, well, life happened: my kids got sick and had to stay home from school, crowding out
MRI Day Musings
CherylRostekBlog2021-07-16T17:45:30-07:00Some random thoughts from today Before MRI I’ve been on a spiritual journey lately (well, okay, always, but it’s more fruitful and pointed lately) and I feel like I’m touching the cloak of the Divine.
Spring Cleaning Part 2: Cleaning house and Imagination
CherylRostekBlog2021-04-08T13:14:45-07:00Cleaning House It was good to “Spring Clean” my soul with you last week and sit in the darkness of lent. Today I’m equally excited to share the bright “aha moment” I experienced while spring
This is my beach
CherylRostekBlog2020-07-21T16:49:14-07:00Here we are in this beautiful front porch portrait, it is not a lake house, it’s our house in the city; but let me tell you why this is my beach. This is my
“hi, anxiety”
CherylRostekBlog2020-02-06T12:05:47-08:00I went to get a picture of my brain yesterday (how I describe it to my young kids): my MRI to see if the glioblastoma brain cancer tumor in my head is growing. Today anxiety