Last Friday was absolutely bonkers for me at work.  We had three bands (Abandon, Fireflight and Remedy Drive) come in for live on-air interviews within a span of three hours.  Needless to say, that's a lot for anyone.  It all ended up going pretty well... even the interview with Fireflight after they had JUST gotten into a car accident on the way over and were pretty shaken up.  My favorite, though, was Remedy Drive.  Honestly, the interview sucked... they were awesome, I was the one who was really lame.  But afterwards they stuck around and chatted with us (well, the two out of the four fellas that came anyway), and they were so sweet.  I met them previously and geeked out all over them about how I had had their CD in my car for months straight and just loved every single song on the album, Daylight Is Coming.  Well, yeah... I kinda geeked out again... couldn't help it.  I know most of you have heard me rave about the band and their songs over the past here... heck, I've posted two or three (more?) of their entire songs here for you guys to read 'cause they just impacted me so much.  I never really fully explained why, though.  I don't think.

Basically, I saw them open for Nevertheless and The Afters last December (Live @ Mokah) and was really impressed with their live show (they are all over the place, the lead singer does crazy flips and dives off his piano).  I took their album home and fell even more in love with them with each new song I heard.  Not only the sound, but the lyrics were so full of hope and light.  It wouldn't be long after that that we found out about my mom's breast cancer.  I remember driving in the car and listening to the CD as I had been all that time, but each song hitting me in a completely different way.  God totally spoke through those songs of hope directly into my heart, saying "Jade, seriously... hello!  Daylight is coming!  There is hope!" and it really helped to give me peace with the situation and put it in God's hands and know that it was going to be ok.  A few months later, I was feeling really dry spiritually.  We had been out of church for a while and it was wearing on me, I felt somewhat distant from God at the time.  Another one of their songs, that I heard a million times by now, completely hit me in a new way... and again God spoke directly into my heart.  I was asked to church by a friend and started going pretty regularly and started hearing the messages I needed to hear on a regular basis.  So yeah, that album and that band means a whole lot to me - so I told 'em so and it was awesome!

Some of you have asked what the latest with my mom is... well, she had some scans recently done to see if the chemo/radiation/surgery had done it's job.  They told her at the place that the scans looked good, but they told her that last time and we all know they weren't good at all.  So, this morning to be exact, my mom came to pick up Preston and handed me a letter and told me to read it.  She looked pretty serious so I was nervous.  It was from the radiology place or wherever she got the scan done and the first line said something to the affect of: A spot was found, but it probably benign (non-cancerous)... please see your doctor, blah blah blah.  Whoa.  Another spot?  Here we go again?!?!?  I looked up from the paper and said, "So... there's another spot now?"  And she kinda lightened up a little and said, "Well, that's what I thought it meant too."  She then went on to say that she called the place, they told her they couldn't tell her anything, she had to call the doc.  At this point she was freaking out 'cause it was all happening again. So, she called the doc and they explained to her that the stupid radiology place just sends out a form letter like that, the only spot they saw was the place where they had previously cut out the cancer and radiated it... not a NEW spot at all.  WHEW!  Why in the HECK would they send out a horribly scary form letter like that to people in my mom's position... NOT COOL AT ALL.  Gave us all quite a scare.  Anyway, my mom goes next week to see her oncologist and talk about the scans and everything, so she'll have a better idea then what the actual news is, but apparently it looks good as of now.  Sigh.  Praise Jesus, the daylight IS coming!

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