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October 1, 2023 KimHarms

On this first day of breast cancer awareness month, let’s be aware of the guy. The guy who has to answer a phone call from his wife while he is at work in the middle of The-Project-From-Hell and learn that she found a new lump and her oncologist is squeezing her into the schedule that afternoon.The guy who is awakened at 2 a.m. by a wife who is in so much pain from surgery that she cannot bear to be awake alone.The guy who has to put on a brave face and shave his wife’s head.The guy who desperately wants…

Breast Cancer Striking Matches

September 15, 2023 KimHarms 2Comment

“Why haven’t you?” A disabled James asked Jesus this question about his own healing when Jesus was sending him on a mission to heal others in an episode of The Chosen that Corey and I watched this week. Jesus’ reply – “Because I trust you. . . In the Father’s will I could heal you, right now. And you’d have a good story to tell. But think of the story that you have in this journey if I don’t heal you. To know how to proclaim that you still praise the Lord in spite of this. . .to know how…

Uncategorized Breast Cancer Take Two

February 9, 2023 KimHarms 3Comment

Since finding a lump in my armpit on the eve of the 7th anniversary of my first breast cancer diagnosis, my life has been moving in both high speed and slow motion. Appointments, ultrasounds, biopsies, tests, scans, x-rays. . . And in between all those things, the waiting and waiting for phone calls with answers to questions I don’t even want to be in a position to be asking. The waiting is awful, so awful in so many ways. But there is a strange beauty in it too. The heaviness pushes me to my knees because I literally have no…

Breast Cancer Always and In All Things

January 20, 2022 KimHarms 2Comment

Many mornings over the past six years, the first ink to flow through my pen into my prayer journal comes out, “God, you are good.” There is a depth of the goodness of Jesus that I did not understand until he took my hand and walked through the fire with me. And because of that I am thankful for a diagnosis six years ago today that left me crushed and collapsed in Corey’s arms. Jesus taught me things through cancer that I could not have learned any other way. He brought me to a place where I believed in my…

Breast Cancer Books & Beverages @ Dog-Eared Books

January 5, 2022 KimHarms

If you find yourself in Central Iowa on January 20, come see me at Dog-Eared books. I will be a part of their Books & Beverages night and would love to chat with you. They will have my book available for purchase or feel free to bring your already purchased book in for me to sign while you buy one of the yummy drinks from their coffee shop.