Most face-book posts are positive and funny - yay for that! This status is NOT to instil or stir fear, although a good think about the reality of our mortality, linked to the eternal life in Christ, through faith, is definitely not out of place.
While sorting through our things in preparation of a move, I have here in front of me, the Royal Marsden London summary of our son, Michael's medical report. Cancer has its own language, but when it is "so close to home" it stings and pains.
I read here, with Michael in my heart, about "Para spinal soft tissue mass, destruction of sacral wing, tumour passes into lumbar spinal canal, displacement of nerve roots, total encasement of nerve roots, disease progression, increasingly destructive - 30% more, increasing involvement, abnormality increase in left rib and 5 more places - all of which are suspicious of bone metastatic disease."
Believe me, the purpose of this post, my friends, is not to draw your always-comforting and appreciated sympathy, but, part of its purpose is to spur us all on to show faithful love in words and deeds, to fund-raise, visit, take a tasty meal, mow a lawn, and always give realistic hope to those who have to undergo treatment. It can be grueling!
Of course not every cancer diagnosis is a death sentence......but eventually we all have to face the final enemy: how bizarre to live as if we never going to die - a fatal denial.
Who said suffering or death is romantic or a walk in the park - but it is not meaningless either. There are real answers, sure hope and rescue in the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. Check them out for yourself - to be sure. Michael was ready to die - in his own words he texted/smsed his friends with, "I am right with Jesus." Our son was ready. Are you?
John 6:40 “For it is my Father’s will that all who see his Son and believe in him should have eternal life. I will raise them up at the last day.” – Jesus.Where to see the Father's Son, Jesus? Right here is a link Mark's quick-moving biography about Jesus.
