Today’s post originally appeared on YSA blog on May 3, 2012.
While gearing up for Global Youth Service Day, the annual celebration of service, I spent some time reflecting on service and realized that I had new and significant reasons to celebrate service this year. In March 2011, a little over one year ago, I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. When I received this shocking diagnosis from my oncologist, my mind immediately began racing, franticly looking for answers, a plan, calmness, something familiar and comprehensible to cling on to. I began asking myself, “What can I do, starting today, to overcome this situation? What can I do to restore my health?” During the days following my diagnosis, I thought about times in my life when I succeeded, “What did I do in those situations to succeed? How can I apply those lessons to overcome this…
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