We never know whose life we will touch by our examples- good or bad-!
I am finding out though just how much my life has touched those whom I have come in contact with.
Yesterday I received a large,manila envelope in the mail. I did not recognize the name in the return address so it sparked my curiosity who it might be from. I opened it up and read the letter that accompanied it. It was from the sister of my daughter-in-law, Diane. I think I have only seen her perhaps once or twice but she knows who I am and she sent me a gift and a poem that I am going to share with you. It is about the limitations of cancer.
What Cancer Cannot Do
Cancer is so limited...
It cannot cripple love
It cannot shatter hope.
It cannot corrode faith.
It cannot eat away peace.
It cannot destroy confidence.
It cannot kill friendship.
It cannot shut out memories.
It cannot silence courage.
It cannot reduce eternal life.
It cannot quench the Spirit.
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Perhaps cancer cannot do these things but our choice to dwell in self-pity and our choices to blame or deny God because of the things we go through in life CAN destroy us. I do not blame God for this trial in my life and I do not ask why me. I say why not me. In every trial that we face God is by our side and He will walk us through it if we will let Him. Even now I am learning things that I did not know before.
Perhaps on the other side of this trial I will be wiser, more compassionate to others and be able to help others that will walk this path behind me. Though I may fear the path ahead, I will make it through and my faith in God will be deeper and I shall see life through a whole different pair of glasses
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