"Are you in a battle?"

October, November, and December of last year were really challenging for my wife and our family. She had four different medical procedures during those months to discover if she had cancer. Three of the four she had some form of anesthesia.

Have you ever been through something like this with someone you love? Or, yourself? It’s a real struggle to deal with the reality of the situation—you may have cancer—and still choose to believe that regardless, everything will be fine. Your mind plays tricks on you, suggesting possible scenarios, each one worse than the previous. You exhaust yourself battling these mind-games until finally, we just had to say: “God, this is in your hands. We can’t control whether or not she has cancer so we just put her in your care, asking you to be with us.”

When we put the situation in God’s hands, people started coming to us, offering to help; people who had had cancer and survived encouraged us. My wife doesn’t have cancer and we’re grateful. And we’re also thankful for new friends who brought us God’s tender-loving care.

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