Are You Willing to be a Sacrifice?!

I had an amazing week celebrating my cancerversary. It was my first and I'm believing it's the first of many, many years of celebrating Gods healing and miraculous works in my life. On my actual cancerversary date I celebrated at dinner with family to surprise my great-aunt on her birthday. It was important to me to celebrate her because this is the same aunt who flew to MI just last year to help take care of me, provide support and comfort to my husband and to see to the needs of our home after my surgery. It's just a testament to her that one year she would fly here to take care of me and the next year to celebrate with me. God is truly good and certainly in the blessing business.

I ended the week with a Cancerversary Celebration dinner party with 50 of our friends and family. It was an amazing time, an amazing outpouring of support and love and I was totally speechless by it all. As I mentioned before, you truly realize how blessed you are when you consider some women do not make it one year after their diagnosis, or much worse even two months after diagnosis as I mentioned in an earlier post.

I want to end this post with what I consider the most important point of all. I can recall right after diagnosis that I would often debate with myself, or perhaps it was the turmoil in my mind, about whether to question God on WHY ME? Why would He allow something like this to happen to ME? I was faithful. Hadn't I been through enough? What if my parents had to bury me and were then left childless or my husband had to bury me and be left all alone? These kinds of thoughts were running through my mind and really before they set in, or before I even considered speaking these things, God had already answered. The first thing he said was, “Why not you? Have you considered that not all things you go through are only just for you? You will gain something from this and so will many others.” Well, it wasn't until my cousin posted the image below that I was reminded of that. She told me that it was after I was diagnosed with cancer that her faith in God had increased because of me. She wasn’t the first to say this, but boy, when I saw it written it really sparked something in me! I want you all to remember that not everything you go through is simply just for you. God uses situations like this to get the attention of His people. Are you willing to be a sacrifice?!