Reflections of...FAITH!

            "Faith is....the foundation!"

   Reflections Of…FAITH!

               by Alan P. Scaglione

“Hello,

Now completed my 5th round of chemo on Wednesday and only one more to go. Met with my GYN doctor today and I am now a candidate for a hysterectomy. My body is reacting very well to all of my treatments and I am bouncing back. Already scheduled surgery for November 5th. This will not cure the cancer. Still in stage 4 and spread throughout my body, but this will take out some of the bulk and make me more comfortable. This is wonderful news for me. I give all the glory to God.

It has been a fast paced and rough ride since March but I know that 2014 will be my best year yet.

Love you all and please keep me in your prayers, Jesus IS listening to us.”

 

That was an email sent out by my brave, courageous, determined, “full of faith” friend who was told on June 10^th of this year that she was terminal.

She was encouraged by her doctors to go and take that cruise or do whatever she has always wanted to do—it was now or never!
They told her she may not make it to Christmas.
Guess they don’t know everything!

 

Another dear friend of mine just celebrated her one year anniversary on September 14^th of when her life turned around and inside out.

She encountered life threatening symptoms that wound her up in the hospital, having emergency surgery, just to go back in two days later and have more surgery…have her heart stop more than once—days in a coma, and the doctors predicted that she would not make it through recovery.
And yet—one year later—she was back in the hospital—THAT same hospital—caring for her mother!
Guess they didn’t know everything again!

 

My daughter-in-law posted something that reminded me of the core of my life.

Her post said “Faith is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living!”
It was a translation to a well known passage in the Bible.
Hebrew 11:1 which I remember this way:
“Faith the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen!”
Either way… it says it all… our foundation has to be faith and it is the substance of all we have ever hoped for…
And it makes life worth living even though we cannot put our hands on it, we cannot lay our eyes on it!
But… for my two friends…
They felt it, they’ve touched it.
And they are both alive to prove it!
And they are baffling and confounding doctors with every breath they take!
There’s a quote in our home that sums it all:
“Life is not measured in the number of breaths we take but instead, in the moments that take our breath away!”

And for me…

That email and that anniversary—both take my breath away!
They remind me that—our prayers are heard, our needs are provided, our desires are met…
So when you face something you can’t see your way through or can’t imagine a way out of…
Remember that email my friend sent…remember the prayers HE has answered for you in the past…
And have Faith…it’s the substance, it’s the firm foundation…that makes life worth living…
If she can find something to be encouraged about, if she can find something to be thankful for..
Follow her lead…learn from her journey…
Take heart, be encouraged, and be grateful…
Because…
Jesus IS listening to us!

 Brother “A”

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