Faith is your shield 🛡️ from God. If it’s all you’ve got left, ask Him for more 💪🙏🏻 Sharpen your sword with God’s Word. Stay in fellowship with Him. You’ll be okay💜
Thanks for this! I had a kinda similar experience with obstetrics.
My wife was pregnant with our first child when we learned her unusual physical symptoms were not pregnancy-related, but Hodgkin's Disease. Suddenly we went from expectant joy to trembling fear. I have always said that's when I learned what it meant to turn to God in dependence, because there was absolutely nothing I could do to change the outcome. I felt I had to relinquish any claims I might think I had on my wife and my unborn child, which was incredibly challenging but also surprisingly freeing. But the pain and fear were so intense!
We still praise God regularly that the birth so many years ago went well and the chemotherapy my wife began the very next day was a resounding success. Our daughter is now a married woman. And my wife and I marked 39 years of marriage this month.
I recognize not every story has such a happy ending, but that experience also reminds me today that God is with us through them all. Thanks, Maury!
Faith is your shield 🛡️ from God. If it’s all you’ve got left, ask Him for more 💪🙏🏻 Sharpen your sword with God’s Word. Stay in fellowship with Him. You’ll be okay💜
Thank you, Krista.
This sounds gut wrenching, and a beautiful testimony for your daughter
Thank you, Bethany.
This is harrowing but refreshingly real. Fear and faith together, like fear and courage together. Love it.
Thank you so much, Stephen
Thanks for this! I had a kinda similar experience with obstetrics.
My wife was pregnant with our first child when we learned her unusual physical symptoms were not pregnancy-related, but Hodgkin's Disease. Suddenly we went from expectant joy to trembling fear. I have always said that's when I learned what it meant to turn to God in dependence, because there was absolutely nothing I could do to change the outcome. I felt I had to relinquish any claims I might think I had on my wife and my unborn child, which was incredibly challenging but also surprisingly freeing. But the pain and fear were so intense!
We still praise God regularly that the birth so many years ago went well and the chemotherapy my wife began the very next day was a resounding success. Our daughter is now a married woman. And my wife and I marked 39 years of marriage this month.
I recognize not every story has such a happy ending, but that experience also reminds me today that God is with us through them all. Thanks, Maury!
Thanks for sharing your story, too. God is with us through all the storms. Praise Him for that.