Spiritual support for cancer diagnosis what has helped you?
Looking back almost two years since my wife’s triple negative breast cancer diagnosis, I am trying to find out what spiritual support I got to bear this burden in our lives and I came up with this, and I wanted to share it with you all. Please share yours if you want.
Mine:
The White Feather—
My wife had just gotten her breast cancer diagnosis and I was going to walk up to the clinic from work for one of her many appointments she had scheduled for that day. I was pretty upset, and scared for my wife. I always think of her as answered prayers when she came into my life and I was afraid and feared the worse. So, as I was leaving work I prayed with my whole heart and soul to God, please take care of my wife and let her live, and tears were coming down my cheeks.
I told God that I did not know if he was there, mostly because I prayed that the tests would come back negative and instead it was positive. I then asked him to put a feather on the ground as a sign he was listening to my prayer. I know we are supposed to walk by faith, but faith alone was not doing it for me, I needed proof that he was listening. I then asked for a sign, I prayed for a feather so that I could pick it up and keep it as a reminder that he was listening and answering my prayers.
I took two steps and there was a white feather on the ground, tears in my eyes I picked it up. And I saw one on every block I walked up to the hospital. Needless to say, I was happy and I had not felt that way for a long time. Whenever I have fears, I have that feather in my wallet as a reminder that he is listening and that it is in his hands.
It was the perfect sign.
Dave
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Memere RN/BA February 24th
That’s beautiful Dave. I don’t need physical proof that God hears me. I’m a breast cancer survivor but it isn’t about me, it’s about my sister, Dianne, You see, Dianne’s Dr kept telling her she had gall stones and I knew he was wrong. Her mid section got so huge, like a barrel shape, I knew it had to be something else. Finally, she went to Boston where she was told she had stage 4 ovarian cancer. As a nurse, I don’t know of anyone who survives stage 4 ovarian cancer. She said to the Dr "You didn’t give me a diagnosis, you gave me a death sentence." Well 4 of my other sisters and Dianne came to my house and we prayed over her. Granted, at first I had my doubts, but if I wanted God to hear and answer my prayers, we all had to leave doubts at the door. When she had surgery, they cut her from the sternum to the pelvis and water gushed out of her. That’s why she got so big. My sister has always been very tiny.so this was so out of the norm for her to get that big. Well, she had 5 doctors. They did a complete hysterectomy and found 3 tumors on her ovaries. One was the size of a grapefruit. I initially thought she had 2 tumors, she recently told me it was 3. While they were in there, they found cancer in her gall baldder, spleen, lower stomach and part of her intestine. They scraped all surrounding organs and tissues to make sure nothing remained. After 1 week, she came home, only to go back 3 days later because she was in so much pain. Well, they found that while they cut down to the pelvis, they missed a tumor just below that incision. Again, more surgery. We celebrated her healing at Christmas because all of that took place 3 yrs ago. She lived. Her Dr’s called her a miracle and this is what Dianne told them and us
"I know it was God who healed me. I felt his presence when we all prayed together. When my sister laid her hands on me, I felt like I was the only person in the room and I was surrounded by this brightness and my body was above all the rest. That was God.and I knew at that moment, I was going to live" Live she did. She ended up having brain cancer as well, twice and both times she survived. She is an inspiration to all of us to power of prayer. Dave, you don’t need your feather. Faith is enough. but if it stands as a reminder of God’s gracious love for us, then you should keep it in your wallet. I don’t need anything else to believe, I have Dianne. God bless you.
Lordpercywooster XXV February 24th
no
fuck god if he exists
either he doesn’t exist or he does exist and he let someone who did nothing bad to anyone, who had a shit life before she met me, who suffered and suffered and finally for the first time in her life was having a good life, shit parents , shit first husband, always did the right thing always nice , she is finally happy loved and then she gets breast cancer
fuck god if he exists then he is a cruel nasty mean hateful god
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