LIVING with HOPE AND CANCER

As if I am going to live.... Lots of people don't know what to say to me. That's okay. I remember being at a loss for words, wondering what to say to someone who has cancer. It's easier to know from this side, from inside the body that is fighting. Can I help you?

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Worry is like being in a rocking chair...

You have something to do, but you aren’t getting anywhere. (Gary Osbourne)

Worry keeps us from healing. Worry keeps us from moving forward. Worry keeps us stuck.

Fighting cancer is a time to produce endorphins. Fighting cancer is a time to embrace life. Fighting cancer is a time to be held by your family and friends, to let them in, to laugh, to smell flowers, to dream, to trust, to seek God, and to let him cover us in his presence. If you don’t know how, ask Him now, ask him, “show yourself to me”. Ask him, “show me you are real”. And then watch for it. That is an invitation that God can’t resist. He is fighting alongside you, and has been. He knows the end of the story, it’s a good one.

posted by Living with Hope and Cancer @ 3/16/2006 04:30:00 am  

2 Comments:

  • At 10:32 pm, Blogger Judy Jakes said…

    Melanie I constantly check this blog to read the next gem. Please be assured of or prayers at this time, I would love to come and see you but wait patiently for your next missionary visit to the UK.

    I know of a number of people who are reading this journal and who comment on the amount they have learnt from it so far.

    Much love and be assured of our prayers.

    Judy et al North London

     

  • At 3:34 pm, Blogger Sylvie Prouse said…

    Hello Melanie, I'm a friend of Victoria from Berkhamsted, and have been praying for you. I have just completed my radiotherapy treatment, having had the same as you did for breast cancer. God has given me great peace throughout this, and I know he can do this for you as you have the gamma knife treatment and anything else.
    Love, Sylvie

     

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