request for prayer

[Hope 98]

My sister-in-law is having surgery on Tuesday related to a lump she found in her breast very recently. I hear she is in good spirits and trusting God.

I truly feel a peace that passes understanding. I trust God, but I don't always trust my "senses". It's either faith or arrogance, I suppose.

Anyway - I'm sure that your prayers will be a comfort to her.

[Anna Marta]

(((((((Praying))))))))))))

Of course this means that those of us "over here" are already praying at least 6 hours before she enters the operating room, neat huh?

AM

[dougjb]

Hi Hope 98,

I will be praying also. Grace and peace to all of you.

dougjb
some food for thought

[beginagainrose]

Hope... please share this with your sister-in-law if you get the chance...

"Oh, Jesus... I lift up this precious woman and pray for Your Healing Grace to touch her and make her whole. We sing the old hymn..."Leaning on the Everlasting Arms"... may she put her very life in Your most powerful, nail-pierced Hands and rest on the promise that You are with her. Be her along-side Comforter and take away any fear...and restore her body and soul. Make her a sign and a proverb or your Great Power... and bring peace to her by knowing that the skill is not in the surgeon's hand... but in The One who holds the hand of the surgeon. In your precious name, Jesus, amen"

(((((((((((((((((((Hope and Her Sister-in-law))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[Lvanett]

I sense all will be well too. I have peace that God will do what's best and is in complete control. (I love watching Him work.) I'll be praying.

[Hope 98]

Rose - I shared your prayer with my sister-in-law and she says thank you and that it is a beautiful prayer.

"As for the surgery, I am trying not to think past it. I hope that it is ‘nothing’, but I know that God will see me through everything, no matter the result. Pathology should have their answers by Thursday."

Thanks to everyone praying - I am still feeling pretty confident.

[Lvanett]

I heard from the Lord "Don't let go of that confidence." and "Have faith."

[Hope 98]

OK - I don't know the specifics or what the right words are, but they are saying it is cancer.

On the positive side - the mass they removed was small and appeared to be contained. I've heard the phrase "caught it early".

On the negative side, there is a lot still unknown and my brother and his kids are taking it hard. The course of treatment is still undetermined.

I'm still feeling that it will be OK. My older daughter is also feeling positive, and my sister-in-law is firm in her faith.

The best thing for us all, I think, is for the peace that passes understanding to envelop everyone in the family.

The quote that keeps coming to my mind is "if you're going through hell, just keep going".

Continued prayer is appreciated.

[ex-shep]

OK - I don't know the specifics or what the right words are, but they are saying it is cancer.

On the positive side - the mass they removed was small and appeared to be contained. I've heard the phrase "caught it early".

On the negative side, there is a lot still unknown and my brother and his kids are taking it hard. The course of treatment is still undetermined.

I'm still feeling that it will be OK. My older daughter is also feeling positive, and my sister-in-law is firm in her faith.

The best thing for us all, I think, is for the peace that passes understanding to envelop everyone in the family.

The quote that keeps coming to my mind is "if you're going through hell, just keep going".

Continued prayer is appreciated.

You got it !! :)

[Anna Marta]

Buy her a gift, the cd book "Peace Love and Healing" by Bernie Segal. He is a cancer surgeon and his 1st book "Love Medicine and Miracles" along with his second REALLY helped me! I needed his encouragment and way of explaining things about the body and mind connection. In fact, buy her both CDs it's easier to listen than read and then the whole family can have easy access.

AM

[Hope 98]

Buy her a gift, the cd book "Peace Love and Healing" by Bernie Segal. He is a cancer surgeon and his 1st book "Love Medicine and Miracles" along with his second REALLY helped me! I needed his encouragment and way of explaining things about the body and mind connection. In fact, buy her both CDs it's easier to listen than read and then the whole family can have easy access.

AM

Thanks for the titles. I may opt for the print versions because I know she's a reader. Meantime, she is working through the end of the school year (about 2 weeks more), but I think she'll have the summer off.

Either my own gut, or God keeps telling me that it will be OK. I guess it makes no sense to buy worry we can't afford, huh?

God bless you all

[Lvanett]

Either my own gut, or God keeps telling me that it will be OK.

No that is definitely Him. I can confirm that for you. That's one of the ways He operates....thru what we think are "gut reactions".

Hold on to your faith, and be at peace. She's in the Lord's Hands now and HIS will shall be done.

[Anna Marta]

I guess it makes no sense to buy worry we can't afford, huh?

God bless you all

For those people who have not faced the reality of disease and death who have not had something happening inside their bodies over which they have no control, what I am saying is a concept and they can only examine it theoreticly.

What is explained in the books I mentioned is a kind of secret of the Gospel way of thinking. It was their influence that gave me the incentive to "Start living and stop trying not to die!"

I believe this is the message of Christ to us. He promises LIFE and gives us Life. Even in the midst of disease and death we have life. It really always was, is and always will be completely out of our control. When we understand that and grasp fully the life we have now and stop allowing our minds to dwell on the things that bring (and are of) death... everything changes and I mean everything... I had to decide if I wanted to "buck God" or "allow God" to enrich what I had, where I was and LIVE. I came to grasp that God invades every part of my body because I am not 3 different parts body, mind, spirit. I am created in the image of God, "3 in 1" so every part of me impacts every part of me! Therefore what I think, feel, decide, do, believe - does have a most definite impact on all three areas.

Can't those of us who have experienced SA testify to that? Someone played mind games with our heads, they played spiritual games with our most basic beliefs and required we use our bodies to do what they directed. The result? We are experiencing illness in our minds, bodies and souls and need recovery of every part of our body and lives. Nothing happens to only one part of us that the rest of our being is not influenced by.

Okay, I am probably so far off now that no one will "get it." Sorry... but I mean well.

AM

My basic perspectives changed in a way it is very hard to explain. But I can testify to you that those people I have met, who have serious issues, like my disease, who have grasped the "life" secret - are happy and content and do much better than those who live in fear.

For me, the hardest part was believing the truth that I would never die, but that I would have to move away from those I loved in order to begin my new life. I hope this makes sense, it was much like deciding to leave everything and everyone behind and moving halfway around the world to begin a new life. The thought of living without my children and parents around me each day was nearly more than I could bear, BUT IF I was to have new life I had to go. What I found was just that with new people and new adventures and new love... since I am phsycially still here I can check in on my children, but I cannot be a part of their lives in the same way anymore. That is the best way I can explain my transition from fear of death to expectancy of new life... maybe because I lived it?

[Hope 98]

Okay, I am probably so far off now that no one will "get it." Sorry... but I mean well.

AM



Actually - I think I do get it. Maybe not completely, but there is something I understand about eternal life the way you describe it.

[Godsgirl]

Sorry for not seeing this earlier Hope but I'm praying for your sister in law.