Our Walk thru the Valley of Death
Breast Cancer -September 2000
My wife has surgery on
9/5/2000 at 10:30 AM...please pray for her. These last few weeks have been
an unexpected walk through the valley. I will expand on our experience when
we are done with this walk. I must say that the Lord has blessed us with a
spirit filled, caring church that has lifted us in our despair. The lord has
been with us and will see us to victory... Praise God !
UPDATE 9/26/2000
Please pray for Deb. She had her surgery and one of her lymph nodes had
cancer so she must take chemo first. We see the Oncologist next week and
will expand on this experience when we are finished. I will be happy to
answer any emails regarding the subject of breast cancer. Thank you for your
prayers.
THE DETAILS
Over the past several years Deb and
I would always joke around saying, "Is life awesome or what!" Life is so
good it seems like a fairy tale. Then Deb received the news, you have a lump
that needs looked at. This was the beginning of our walk through the valley
of death. I had many feelings of helplessness. The first few weeks are like
a dream that you are waiting to awake from. Then I realized that I could
lose Deb …just when we were at a point in life that our walk with Jesus
Christ and ourselves seemed so perfect.
I just felt it was up to me to be strong but I was devastated and wondered
if I would blame God for inflicting such tragedy on the woman I loved. Deb
was the good person a faithful and active Christian. I was worried about
losing my wife and God. Why not me, I deserved it not her.
I only had one choice….PRAY. After much praying I received such an awesome
answer: How could I get mad at God for giving us 25 years together. She was
the example who led me to Christ and the woman who showed me how to walk the
walk. I knew God didn’t promise we wouldn’t have trials but he did promise
that he would be there.
I can tell you Jesus has been with us every step of the way and we have come
closer to him and each other. There have been many blessings through these
troubling times and we are walking out of this valley much stronger then
when we entered. Without the personal relationship, we have with Jesus
Christ this crisis would have been unbearable.
UPDATE 6-11-2009
Still cancer free and God has
blessed us beyond our expectations.
