Defending…
I came here to write a post on my political comment about Senator Kennedy, but then I thought about that for a bit. I do not need to defend myself, this is my blog. I am sorry that a few of you were offended by my comment to the Senator: “I may not agree with you (Senator Kennedy) on politics, but we can both agree that brain cancer and its treatments are grueling and we must all pull together for each other and fight this monster” but I stand behind it, and given the opportunity I would say it directly to him.
I then thought about what this blog brings me. I made a promise to myself when I started writing about my cancer journey that the second it caused me more stress than joy, I would stop as abruptly as I started. I am starting my 10th chemo cycle tonight, and where I am? Sitting here trying to formulate a post that doesn’t offend anyone… That speaks volumes.
I am a Republican. (Yet I don’t agree with everything President Bush has done or said either) I need not delve any further into my political leanings than that. I made one comment… a very genuine comment of concern and hope for a fellow brain cancer patient. I have defended that until I am blue in the face, and I will not defend it again.
But more importantly than my political stance, I am a Christian. I believe in the inerrant Word of God, and I will defend that tooth and nail. If the bible is against it, I am against it. Whether that be homosexuality, abortion, or wearing silver eyeliner on the second Sunday of the month. End of story.
So if I have disappointed you, that wasn’t my intention. But I am more concerned about disappointing my Savior, and until He convicts me I stand by what I said (which honestly, wasn’t much).
Now, I am off to take my chemo…
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Joyfully…
“There are moments in the harsh bleakness of winter that would be unbearable if there were not, tucked deep within its bosom, the promise of spring.
But spring always comes.
Dark moments in the life and heart of a mother or wife are mitigated only in the light of God’s sovereignty. We must learn to draw upon the resources of a sovereign God - One who unreservedly offers us not solutions, not answers, not happily-ever-after endings, but His glad welcome- the assurance of His presence with us.
The desert has its edge, and in God’s timing the darkness will give way to light. Ephesians 3:2 is our warranty: “We may approach God with freedom and confidence.” Assured of His glad welcome, we can take our places in a world full of people like ourselves- people who don’t know where to turn, who never in a million years expected to find themselves in their present circumstances- people for whom there are no answers but Jesus Christ.
And we can do it joyfully!
-Joy MacKenzie
It’s a choice. You can either face the hard knock circumstances of your life, whatever they may be, depressed and forlorn, or you can face them joyfully. Either way, they are what they are, and no amount of wishing other wise will make them go away.
Trust Me. I have tried.
Yet every time I do, I come back to the same place- and every time I come back, the one thing that is certain, the one thing that has never changed is Christ’s position on his throne. My problems are still my problems, but because I have a sovereign God who is working things out for my ETERNAL good, I can rest assured that no matter what happens to me on this earth, no matter what circumstances or disease that enters my earthly life…..
I have a mansion in heaven with my name on it!
I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have troubles. But take heart! I have overcome the world. - John 16:33
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