“Mama said there’d be days like this.” -Luther Dixon & Willie Denson
“In this world you will have trouble. BUT take heart! I have overcome the world.” -Jesus
YES, we were warned by Mom & Jesus! Life is not easy. Still, knowing this doesn’t make the process better. The pain lighter. What do you do when your world starts to crumble? When you come into a season that is heavy? I recently found out that my sister was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. Processing this kind of information is tough. I just recently lost a friend to breast cancer. In fact there was only about 1 month between when my friend passed and my sister was diagnosed. After my friend passed I was having nightmares. My heart was heavy. I woke up from these nightmares checking my breast for lumps. I wasn’t sleeping well. I thought it was just my way of grieving subconsciously, and maybe it was.
When I found out my sister had breast cancer I didn’t initially believe her. When I finally did believe the news I felt guilty. Guilty for not believing it. There is much more to this story that I will not go into.
When pain strikes, when cancer hits, when life feels like its literally choking you to death, where do you turn?
There is a song by Cody Carnes called “Run to The Father.” The chorus goes like this:
“I run to the father
I fall into GRACE
I’m done with the hiding
No reason to wait
My heart needs a surgeon
My soul needs a friend
So I’ll run to the Father
Again and again
And again and again
Oh, oh, oh”
This is what we do. We go to the one who holds all the cards. Seriously no one can fight cancer alone. Jesus is the only one who concurred death. We can trust him whether we live or we die. When you can’t reason or logic just doesn’t make sense anymore- run to the father again and again and again and again!