More than just having cancer.

 When you wake up on the day that you have received a diagnosis of cancer, life changes. Your whole schedule changes. Everything you were doing at the time comes pretty much to a standstill. A whole lot of new appointments get scheduled for you and what you were giving your days to; a lot gets put on hold.

When this hit my life, I went about it differently. I refused to see myself being a victim of my diagnosis. I never saw myself dying at any time. I kept saying, “It’s just a thing.” It happened. I don’t know how and that wasn’t the main thought every day. When the first thing I did before I even called 911 was to contact Heaven and see what God had to say, that set my path ahead of me.

I finished the book, Walking through the Valley of Mud the other day and it’s on Amazon. I woke up this morning wanting to come here to add another post about what this past year for me was like.

I thought about the book and realized that there is more about what God did in my spirit and life than what cancer did to my body. I believe that is because I refused to take it into my body. All these months and still today this diagnosis sat outside of me. I know that might not make sense but it’s all I have to share with you.

It’s more than a mindset, although, that has a great deal to do with how you get through your journey. But it has to come from a conviction that God is good and loving, and he doesn’t afflict his children with cancer to teach them something. That’s in complete contrast to who He is.

But He does use these trials that come into our lives for good. That is a fantastic part of my journey; good has come out of it.

Now when I see or hear about other people who lost loved ones to this disease, I can’t help but wonder if they took the word of the medical field over the Word of God? I got told things that sounded like the truth. I was given percentages of 40 or 50 or even 80% of recurrence if I didn’t follow what I was told. And to be honest, when I’d come home from these visits, I’d feel fear trying to overtake me. Where I had been walking in trust from the beginning and knew that I had a journey to take to my Pool where I’d SEE what I was believing; that I was already healed.

I hope anyone reading this will stop listening to the words of fear being spoken over them. Words from any source, friends who tell you stories of people who died from what you have, Christians who say you shouldn’t go to doctors if you are really a Christian.

You have to first stop and talk to God about your individual life. That’s the only voice that matters. He knows you better than you know yourself. He knows the way in which you should walk and he’s not going to get mad at you or deny you access to all His love, grace, and mercy just because you can’t stand in complete faith.

 This was what I needed to share today over just another update on how my journey went. Today I feel closer to the Lord than ever and at the same time healthier than ever. I refuse to live the rest of my life in fear. I have a bright future ahead of me, hoping to get back to Florida when God opens the door, I’ll be ready.

I bless you. 

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