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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:05 pm
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I was walking my dog, reflecting on my mother`s up and coming chemo-therapy treatment. I began wondering; why is it so easy to blame God for our misfortunes here on Earth then to actually believe in him and have faith in his great works here on Earth?
I do not blame God for my mother`s cancer, I do not blame God for horrible misfortunes that happen either. It has crossed my mind though when I am praying and I demand God to make ________ happen. I realize that is my short sighted fear getting crabby at God and then I quickly apologize, ask for forgiveness and explain myself. I know he already knows but it just makes me feel better to explain everything to him. It cleanses my soul.
That is what got me thinking, one of my prayers. I was praying asking God to heal my mother of her bodily affliction and to please bless her and her up and coming treatment. I was asking God to make it possible for the doctors to keep treating her until her surgery so the cancer won`t be allowed to roam free in her body. The doctors were contemplating whether or not to keep giving her the treatments and what would happen if they stopped. That scared me, so I began praying.
In my prayers I realized I was demanding, as if I was almost blaming God that if he did not help us how angry I would get at him. To me I was blaming him for possibly not helping! I felt terrible. I quickly calmed myself down and begin to say, "Lord, I trust you. It is scary but my faith is strong enough (no matter how small) to believe that you love us and that you are my mom`s number one cheerleader. Please heal her of her bodily affliction and as for tomorrow let it only be a sign that she is meant to get her surgery faster if she is not allowed her treatment. If it is your will though Lord, I pray that you will let her proceed with her treatments."
It is hard to give him full control, sometimes even scary especially when it comes to someone you love`s life. Then I went a step further and asked God, "Why is it so hard to believe you can work miracles in MY life?" I believe miracles can and do happen in the world, it is just harder to see them when it comes to my own personal life. Maybe my prayers should start to include asking God to give me wisdom and understanding in my own life, to be able to see the miracles he performs in my life.
To end this story with a miracle that happened in mines and my mother`s lives is that she was able to still get her treatment, she was given another chance to keep fighting cancer. heart
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Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:53 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 1:21 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:01 am
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It's human nature, I suppose. We tend to want there to be some sort of fairness in our lives; karma, if you will, that lets good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. Most people, for example, will probably feel a lot worse if an innocent family got shot than if a group of drug-dealers (involved in a dispute) had the same thing happen to them. When we can't find any reason for something to happen, it's pretty easy to rationalize that "God must have done it", but I've often felt that's the easy way out. Sometimes bad things happen, but in the grander scheme, they're just passing moments of pain.
Anyway, for your mother, d i m i r h e x, I suggest that she eat a lot of berries (strawberries, others with their seeds). Go for smoothies if that's easier, but eating a lot of healthy, natural foods may do more for her than, say, food that's merely convenient. One school of thought is that cancer is the body's healing system not shutting down when it should (something in fruit seeds helps regulate it, supposedly), and whether they're right or wrong, I don't think it could possibly hurt to try and get her really good nutrition, especially since chemotherapy is basically poison. Less sugars (I also hear cancer tends to feed on that easily), more healthy.
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Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:13 pm
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