Today I go for the first of 35 radiation treatments. I was told they will last for 5 minutes. That amounts to a little over 2 hours of treatment.
The other day when I was setting in the doctor's office an elderly woman came in, she was in a wheel chair and I could see her ankle. The skin looked red and burned. She was having treatment as well. I immediately thought, "I wonder if my neck will look like that?" A lot of things can run through your mind.
This morning, during prayer, I was thinking about those in the church who have traveled this path of treatment for cancer. Some with chemo and raditation. I called their names during prayer, Katie, Steve, Daryle, Kathy, Jack, Paul, Dale and there may be others I am not even aware of. I began to thank God for walking with them and keeping His hand on them.
I was reminded the the Hebrew Children who were thrown in the fiery furnace and came out untouched. (I suppose radiation treatment could kind of be thought of as a fiery furnace because it can burn you.) That is what I am trusting Him for while I am going in, being in and coming out. Bottom line...TO GOD BE THE GLORY!!!!
Perhaps today, as a believer, you are facing a fiery furnace. Don't panic but rather state your position in Christ. You will come out.
1 down and 34 to go.
This is the Journey of Pastor Rick Stratton's discovery of vocal cord cancer, treatment, recovery and on. My prayer for you today is that you will be blessed and victorious. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because, greater is He that is in you, then he that is in the world. 1 John 4:4
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