Breast cancer diagnosis raises future awareness
Yesterday I found out I have breast cancer. The previous week, when I fasted and prayed, I prayed for my health, knowing they were taking a biopsy of breast tissue.
Trusting that God can completely heal me is a comforting thought. However, as much as I like the idea of living, I wonder if that’s what the best thing is really for me overall.
I wonder if my time on earth is nearing the end of a mission and I can advocate from heaven more effectively. Things don’t always turn out the way we hope or expect.
I can imagine John the Baptist, when facing the executioner just before he was beheaded, with the thought crossing his mind, “I didn’t see this coming.” But in retrospect, John the Baptist is one of the saints advocating by the throne of God and gets a position of leadership for eternity.
In every circumstance, we need to trust God’s plan even if we don’t especially like it.
Today’s Bible reading was from Luke 4 about Jesus healing Simon’s mother-inlaw. I will pray for Jesus to rebuke the cancer in me so it will leave my body, and like that woman, I will get up and serve Jesus and wait on those he puts me in contact with.
But like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego expressed, I know God can save me, but even if He doesn’t, my hope is in the Lord.
Michele Lincoln
Lahaina
“Pandemic fatigue.” Really?
After one year of this virus, a new media phrase has evolved, “pandemic fatigue.” Are people actually fatigued because a deadly global virus has dictated our short-range future? It has been one year.
Fortunately, thanks to modern medicine, scientists developed a vaccine less than one year since the pandemic began. Our future looks bright.
Now, let us put this in perspective: Had our Greatest Generation heroes proclaimed “World War II fatigue” one year after the invasion of Pearl Harbor, the USA would not be here today, and our enemy would have obliterated our European allies. Of course, in the Pacific, WWII would have also ended in defeat for the USA.
Thank you to thosefrom the Greatest Generation for not catching WWII fatigue in 1942 or 1943. Thank you for staying the course and sacrificing your lives through 1945 and beyond. Roger Ross
Lahaina