Why - Cancer

The big "C". I know God hates this disease and we should too. There have been so many of our family and friends attacked by this horrible deteriorating disease. I have to wonder if this is environmental...chemical....the mixing of all these things and how we have eaten and what man has created to facilitate our lives. I wonder if the hairspray we put on each day enters our scalp and can cause....

What about the powdered drinks we mix with water. The Pills we take each day that mix in our system with other chemicals in food that we eat....the list goes on and on. We can get obsessed with the "if", "why" and "what's".

I've known so many that have had this disease and some live and some die. How do you pray? I do know that it is God's will that all should be healed. So why is it that some don't get healed? Does it have to do with "their" faith? Does it have to do with how "we pray" for them? So many questions...

We probably will never know the whole reasoning behind this. Is it ok to question? Yes of course! I ask God these questions all the time. He does not always give me a straight answer but I'm smart enough to know that He doesn't have to. He is after all "GOD"! What He does give me is a peace that comes upon me that assures me that He is always in control!

My brother in law is 85 years old and has cancer. He just finished a treatment at MD Anderson. Praise God he is doing well. He knows the Lord through all of this and is ready to meet him when the time comes. "God is in control".

My daughters' best friends are dealing with their father with Cancer. He is at the end of his days. He knows the Lord, praise God! His family will miss him tremendously. He is only in his late 40s early 50s. "God is in conrol".

A friends husband from church was just diagnosed with cancer in his mouth last week. We are praying for his complete healing of course. I say "God is in control".

Let's pray and ask God to give us wisdom in how to pray when we hear of loved ones being struck by this evil. Let's pray that the Lord keep us strong and believe in the power of the blood of Christ that was shed for our illnesses. I pray for your loved ones and I ask that you pray for mine.

Love, Ruth