Today I am thankful for...
153. Beautiful, heart-wrenching words in Alan Paton's novel, "Cry, the Beloved Country."
154. Beautiful, humbling words in an email from a well-respected leader in my church's denomination who was recently diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. I include some of his words here because I can't say them as well as he can:
The prognosis is that medically speaking the cancer
is not curable but treatable. Without treatment the average survival
rate is a few months. With treatment survival is 12 to 14 months. Some
folks with this kind of tumor are cured. The response to the treatment
is highly individual and not predictable...
...This journey has been a great learning
experience for me. I embrace Paul's statement of the two options. To
continue to live is an opportunity to serve. To die is gain, to be with
the Lord, is better far. I am ready to die and to live as he wills. He
is smart, good and sovereign. I am justified by his atonement, saved by
his mercy and grace, and ready to meet him. I can only imagine. He is my
healer, now, later or in heaven. The outcome is going to be good
because of God...
...We
all have to face death one day or another. I have thought I would face
it earlier, and I did, and I thought I would face it later. It may pass
this time around, or not. Either way. He is good. With him as Lord,
there is no bad outcome.
2 comments:
Hannah.... is this a leader in the CM&A? I wonder if Tom and I might know him. Are you free to tell us his/her name? Thank you, Nila
Hi Nila,
It is Tim Owen; he's with the district office.
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