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This is a letter writen today by a friend of mine by the name of Rick Stiles. Please, please, please pray for Rick and his wife and little girl.
WE DO NOT LOSE HEART... ~~~
So I am quickly losing my battle against cancer. All the alternative treatments we've been doing have failed. My PCP called a few leading alternative medical doctors around the country. Each of them said that, because of my particular cancer (Mantle Cell Lymphoma) and my history (3 chemo courses plus an autologous stem-cell transplant, each which resulted in dramatically diminishing returns) they recommended I take "the chemo route". However, any further chemo route that exists (and Lei and I will find out tomorrow, at our appointment with the oncologist) will be dangerous, possibly killing me or leaving me with a disabling chronic health condition.
Presently, I have lymphoma tumors popping all over the place. Two are large and now causing pain. There is cancer in my right eye, which makes it difficult to keep that eye in alignment with its partner, causing double-vision and sometimes making me look pretty goofy. At this time, I am dying.
As I reflect, however, I consider my "walk with the Lord" these past several years, which my "cancer journey" has been part; and I can't help but smile when I realize how close I am to Him, now, and how much I've learned about Him through long, heart-to-heart prayer, through in-depth Bible study, through fellowship with my dear brothers and sisters-in-Christ at my home place of worship, Grand Rapids Central Seventh-Day Adventist Church- and this, despite of or maybe because of this terrible cancer journey. I think to myself, I would not give up this cancer journey and even my probable soon demise if it meant I had to give up anything I've gained in my walk with the Lord, for everything I've gained is changing me into someone more like Jesus, my Savior, Himself I think of this Bible passage:
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day. For our light and temporary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that far outweighs our troubles. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.…" - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
When Reign, my late wife, died, I learned how to cope with that loss by focusing not behind or in the present at sorrows for which I could do nothing to change, but ahead to the promise of Jesus' soon return, when He will resurrect Reign and I will see her leaping with gladness into His arms. As it says in 1 Corinthians 15:51-54:
"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."
And so it goes, because of where the Creator has led me in my walk with Him, despite occasional emotional agony and even impending death itself, I have learned to look forward to my Savior's return, to the end of all sin and sorrow and Satan, to Heaven and a new Earth, to the beginning of an etermity of joy and purpose and love and worshipping my God, face-to-face. I praise my Father in Heaven! I praise His Son!
Thank-you for letting me share. Good-night and God bless!
WE DO NOT LOSE HEART... ~~~
So I am quickly losing my battle against cancer. All the alternative treatments we've been doing have failed. My PCP called a few leading alternative medical doctors around the country. Each of them said that, because of my particular cancer (Mantle Cell Lymphoma) and my history (3 chemo courses plus an autologous stem-cell transplant, each which resulted in dramatically diminishing returns) they recommended I take "the chemo route". However, any further chemo route that exists (and Lei and I will find out tomorrow, at our appointment with the oncologist) will be dangerous, possibly killing me or leaving me with a disabling chronic health condition.
Presently, I have lymphoma tumors popping all over the place. Two are large and now causing pain. There is cancer in my right eye, which makes it difficult to keep that eye in alignment with its partner, causing double-vision and sometimes making me look pretty goofy. At this time, I am dying.
As I reflect, however, I consider my "walk with the Lord" these past several years, which my "cancer journey" has been part; and I can't help but smile when I realize how close I am to Him, now, and how much I've learned about Him through long, heart-to-heart prayer, through in-depth Bible study, through fellowship with my dear brothers and sisters-in-Christ at my home place of worship, Grand Rapids Central Seventh-Day Adventist Church- and this, despite of or maybe because of this terrible cancer journey. I think to myself, I would not give up this cancer journey and even my probable soon demise if it meant I had to give up anything I've gained in my walk with the Lord, for everything I've gained is changing me into someone more like Jesus, my Savior, Himself I think of this Bible passage:
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day. For our light and temporary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that far outweighs our troubles. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.…" - 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
When Reign, my late wife, died, I learned how to cope with that loss by focusing not behind or in the present at sorrows for which I could do nothing to change, but ahead to the promise of Jesus' soon return, when He will resurrect Reign and I will see her leaping with gladness into His arms. As it says in 1 Corinthians 15:51-54:
"Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."
And so it goes, because of where the Creator has led me in my walk with Him, despite occasional emotional agony and even impending death itself, I have learned to look forward to my Savior's return, to the end of all sin and sorrow and Satan, to Heaven and a new Earth, to the beginning of an etermity of joy and purpose and love and worshipping my God, face-to-face. I praise my Father in Heaven! I praise His Son!
Thank-you for letting me share. Good-night and God bless!
Ma
The FDA controls all medicines in this country that can be used for ANY kind of treatment in any clinic,hospital,treatment centers,etc.They have chosen to treat the cancer ,but forget the CURE!Even if there is a cure for cancer they will never let in to this country--------EXAMPLE:In south Africa there is a cancer specialist that found a cure for the pancreatic cancer--cured a patient that had 2 months to live and still alive
This doctor funds himself with the money that he makes ,he pays for research and has different medications and different solutions to maintain the cancer from spreading and containing it.The doctor is an oriental gentleman who spend his owned $$$ for procedures and new medications that he has discovered.He has sent the FDA samples as far as 10 years ago and we have never heard absolutely nothing
Folks is all about making $$$$$-------------------ONLY GOD almighty can get it in this country,or by a direct healing of an individual
The FBI came into his office and took all his information and medications and ransacked his whole office and gave him a Stern warning to stop
This is why folks we will not see a cure by the FDA. Money the root of all evil-------can you imagine what would happened if there was a cure??CANCER hospitals,clinics,nurses,doctors ,pharm. companies would go broke and lose all their jobs,So its easier for us die