Sept 18

Dan continues to do well at school and with his health, and we are settling in to a new “normal” in our family. It involves thanking God every day for every breath, every moment of life. It involves skipping the small stuff and focusing on what really matters in life – people, eternity, love, relationships and God. It takes but a moment to erase all the small stuff and it happens when you hear your loved one has cancer.
In the past when I have told someone with whom I am sharing the difference Jesus has made in my life, I often used the analogy that if I had a cure for cancer and did not share it, it would be a very cruel thing indeed. Now as a mother of a son who has cancer, I can’t imagine not doing all that is possible to find the best cure and treatment for him. If you told me today “I know and have what will heal Dan” I would be there in an instant.
So it is my earnest desire to share that the Word of God has the “cure” for the problem of sin. Some have found it and it is our great joy and serious responsibility to “give away the cure” to those who will listen, those who recognize themselves as sinners in need of God’s remedy for sin.
Cancer is a terrible disease to be sure as we are finding out firsthand, but it is not as terrible as the consequences of standing before a Holy God, filled with the “disease” of sin and not having received His cure. We all have this “cancer” called sin and we all have access to the only cure, the atoning sacrifice of the Jesus, God’s Messiah and Son. His amazing Love for us is so evident in His mercy, grace and forgiveness which all of us need so greatly.