Dear Family and Friends,
Today we’re celebrating thirty-three years cancer-free from Breast Cancer #1! Woohoo! Some of you walked us through that bald and bruised newlywed year. Forever grateful!
Inflow – Overflow
I’ve been remembering how God comforted me in those scary, weary days, and I want to share that comfort with you. Although Covid-19 and Cancer attack differently, both want to kill and both change us forever. But. God. Is. Bigger.
He comforts us in all our affliction, SO THAT we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 2 Corinthians 1:4
A Weightier Word
April 2, 1987, soon after the surgeon delivered the diagnosis, “Becky, it’s cancer,” my pastor sat beside my hospital bed and spoke a tender, weightier word: “Becky, let God do something good with this.”
“But God”
We are confident that God is able to orchestrate everything to work toward SOMETHING GOOD and beautiful when we love Him and accept His invitation to live according to His plan. Romans 8:28
When we’re suffering the life-altering, wearisome effects of chemotherapy or quarantine, finding “something good” might seem as likely as finding toilet paper and hand sanitizer! But God.
I’m forever changed by Breast Cancer #1. I hate cancer. It lives as a monster under my bed, forever threatening to jump out and grab me — again. But God is BIGGER and He has forever changed me with “something good.”
Soon after Breast Cancer #2, a professional writer captured the “But God” and “Something Good” themes from Breast Cancer #1.
God’s faithful “something good” is comfort to me, overflowing to you. Even if you’ve read or heard my story before, please read it again. Why?
Four Purposes
- Happy Dance with me to praise God for the good He did with something meant for evil.
- If you’re weary in this pandemic, imagine me speaking a tender, weightier word to you: “Friend, let God do something good with this.”
- How is God BIGGER than cancer and Covid-19?
- Is God inviting you to know Him better – who He really is – rather than a version of Him that’s not entirely true? “Something good” coming from Breast Cancer #1 was understanding who He is as my “Good Shepherd.” The truth — not my version.
Whether it’s Cancer or Coronavirus
I know most of us like to skim, so I highlighted for you. Click here for the 4 minute “But God!” video referenced at the end of the article.
Something Good
Thank you for celebrating with me and allowing me to overflow the comfort God Himself overflowed to me. It’s something good God continues to do!
Forever grateful,
Becky (who BY FAITH is believing God to do something good with this)