There seems to be a growing list these days of close friends and relatives to reach out to with a prayer. They are all very special people in their own rights… and they are thought about daily by me and many others.
Please drop by Miss Vickie’s and give her a cyber hug and say a prayer for her speedy recovery and for once some good news on her health.
Raven is another special person that can use our prayers. She is now receiving mega radiation treatments to nip this disease in the bud.
I just received news today that my Aunt (my mothers sister) has been diagnosed with Breast Cancer for the second time in her life. This scares me. She is the second Aunt that has had to deal with this devastating disease. This gene runs in my maternal family – nuff said.
I pray that this time she does not have to have as radical a procedure as she did the last time. She is a strong woman physically, mentally and her faith is unwavering. I have never met as gentle a soul as she. She is soft of heart and soft spoken. My love and prayers are with her, as always.
I just wonder sometimes why we humans have to suffer so. Why are the good ones always stricken this way? Are we being tested? I just don’t understand why we should be put through so much pain and anguish. No one deserves this… My Aunt and Vickie don’t, Raven doesn’t and neither do any of the other thousands who live with diseases of the mind and body. I just don’t understand. Are we doing this to ourselves? Is it what we are eating and drinking? Is it the pollution in the air? Or are we preselected by design before birth to be healthy or sick?
As some of you know – I believe in a higher power – be it male or female… I don’t know. I do not believe in Church and what it has shown me, personally, to stand for. Right now I am beginning to question my faith… and that really scares me. I can walk outside and see the beauty that power has given us and I am filled with wonder at it, and yet the list grows larger of undeserving souls of unquestionable light who suffer. Why?
Hang in there; that’s what I do
I look unto the heaven, and cry out to God;
but He answers not.
I ask for relief,
but none comes.
I beg and scream,
curse and rant,
but no answer comes.
I awake, and look to the east,
behold, the sunrise,
and understand that the answers will not come
this side of heaven.
Seems like valleys and mountains sometimes. Just remember, faith can move a mountain.
I am understandably upset at my sister having to go through breast cancer again…stage two. I feel helpless, although I know that there are reasons that I do not see right now. I want to go jump on a plane and go to be there for support, but cannot. I realize that this is something that can only be taken care of by doctor’s and prayer. Prayer is the one thing I can do for her and all the others like Raven and Vickie, and all the other nameless ones that are suffering. And prayer that my daughter does not ever have to suffer the same pain, and is a wakeup call for her to do self-testing every month as I do.
Perceived silence speak VERY loudly and begs a lesson. “What are you teaching me Lord.” As for me, I would not presume to second guess, advise or brief God on a situation. Isaiah 55 holds insight. Just my thoughts, Wendy.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways my ways,”declares the LORD.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
and do not return to it without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty,but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree, and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD’s renown, for an everlasting sign, which will not be destroyed.”
So sorry to hear your aunt is once again suffering with breast cancer. My prayers are with her, your mom, you and all the family.
Sometimes I feel guilty being somewhat healthy when I think of others such as Ms. Vickie and Raven, and all the others we don’t know who suffer daily.