"It is a blessing of my life to create in a visual way the deepest thoughts, feelings, celebrations, and passages from one stage of my life to another. Cancer will certainly bring a person to his or her knees and indeed God answers our prayers and gives us the strength to face the day with increasing courage and the growing ability to encourage others with similar situations of recovery." Mary has been a Reach to Recovery volunteer for the past 34 years visiting with hundreds of women and men. "Over coming cancer gave me a new freedom to become the woman God was shaping..." "I now celebrate the senior status of 71 ½ years young."