I shared this on my Facebook page this morning. I hope this helps whoever's reading this cope with what you are going through right now.

Like you...I've been there. I've heard those words "It's cancer and it doesn't look good." I hope that someday you will feel like I do right now.

" I can't tell you the feeling I have inside of me right now. There are no words that can describe the vibrant energy that swells in my heart and is filling me, over flowing my being with a sense of optimism, enthusiam and joy. I feel amazingly invincible and I can say that right now with a power that will not only make anyone that hears it believe it...but feel it as well.

Have you ever felt that feeling? Can you remember any point and time in your life when you felt that nothing was beyond your reach? I remember that feeling...and I feel it amplified even more within me right at this very moment. Life is amazing. To be alive, to breath in and out. To feel the love from your spouse, your devoted. To see the love and life in the eyes of your children...it's a feeling that nothing can compare to. I am free in this feeling right now...free to be myself and to revel in the beauty of life and the gifts bestowed upon me.

This feeling has given me wings that take me above anything that life throws at me. I am flying above economic hardships, devastating personal losses, medical travesties...I am surrounded by the memories of all that is good and sweet in my life.

I look at myself and think...it's all going to be OK, no matter what happens because my life has been filled with good. The bad times have only make me cherish the good times even more.

I want to change my world and make it better for everyone I meet...and I'm starting with this note. If you are reading this get inspired. Feel the greatness of life...

Merry Christmas and I love you all."

Eric M. Statler