I couldn’t let October pass without getting a little pink
for Breast Cancer Awareness. I don’t know how much this fits in with my Thirty-One
Days to Fresh Strength, but perhaps someone is flagging under the burden of a diagnosis
and needs a bit of hope for the days ahead.
This year, I’m celebrating fourteen years of being cancer
free, so thankful to God for the life He has given me to share.
Here’s a photo of our family taken only the day before my
big surgery in 2000.
I have more wrinkles, now, and most of my hair color comes out of a
bottle, but I'm still going. And those little children are now young adults.
“Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life
. . . The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures
forever . . .” (Psalm 138:7, 8).
Like the Psalmist, I know what it’s like to walk in the
midst of trouble. As I stood with those small children, my biggest prayer was
to live to see them grow up. I didn’t know what the pathology report would say
in the days ahead or whether the cancer had
migrated to other parts of the body. What I could do was trust God with the
next moment. And the next, and the next. Here I am, fourteen years later,
trying as best I can to daily surrender so that God can fulfill his purpose for
me.
So, yes, I’m getting a little pink. Get pink with me and make
sure you or the woman you love gets that mammogram. And if you’re dealing with
a cancer diagnosis right now, declare with me the words of the Psalmist, “Your
love, O Lord, endures forever.” Know that God can be trusted.