Such a beautiful day to celebrate the risen King but sometimes life happens all at once. The book of James tells us that we are to "count it all joy when we face various trials". What I've learned is that the Greek word for various means multiple. In other words we can expect that when it rains, it can pour sometimes.
On this day, we learned that my sweet aunt Judy had a cancerous tumor in her colon. The bad news continued as the found more on her liver and her gallbladder had to be removed. The chemo required for this type of cancer would be entirely too hard for her to endure so they recommend hospice care for her remaining time here with us. We also learned that my equally sweet sister in law, Camile had a biopsy done which in the following days was confirmed to be cancerous. It is treatable and that is where our hope in God comes in. I'm thankful that though both of my beauties are facing cancer at different stages, they both know Jesus and it says in Romans that though the outer man perishes, the inner man is strengthened. No one can take that away from us. Jesus rose from the grave on this day and we too have eternal life and will rise from the grave if we believe and put our faith in Him. Sometimes though, we need to nail our burdens and worries to the cross and rise up to meet Jesus while still in this life. I'm sure there will be further posts with updates later but first I wanted to share the beauty of fellowship that we shared in-spite of our challenges.
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