Life Happens

The last few days have been filled with mixed emotions and thoughts on life,in particular the various celebrations of life:

Renewed life:

One day last week, and only within one hour of each other, two people were giving praise reports of being freed of cancer. One was a minister friend from the South whose brother had received a clean bill of health,free of cancer. He had been diagnosed with cancer of the brain, lymph glands and thyroid.

Another praise report came from a young lady at my church who had successful surgery and was freed of all cancer that was within her.

Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to.

Eternal life:

After hearing all this good news, next came the news of another young lady at church who passed away from a hard fought battle with cancer. As my Pastor put it so eloquently,"She received her healing. She's at home in peace."

I did not know this woman personally, but the one thing that stood out about her whenever you saw her in church: she really knew how to get her praise on! So my lasting impression of her will always be how she loved and worshiped the Lord.She will now spend eternity just worshiping at the feet of the Almighty.

One of the great mysteries in life,and there is no way I will even make an attempt at coming to some kind of conclusion with:is the healing of cancer of one and not the other. One thing I do know is that it is not a matter of one having a greater faith than another. I love what the great American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote about life:

It's not the length of life, but depth of life.

Newborn life:

And all the while all of this was happening, a co-worker friend welcomed a new baby boy into the world.

Sometimes we forget how many different facets of life there are and will occur within minutes,seconds,hours,and days of each other. It's good to be reminded of how precious life is.


Now if we could just get that cherish each day we live part right,we'd be alright. Time to git my praise on!