Living day 3

HOPE

I remember this like it was yesterday.  When I found out the 1st time that I had cancer, I wanted the doctor to tell me how bad it was.  She couldn’t tell me, she had no idea.  She said we would have to wait until I met with the Oncologist.  She told me that the pathology report indicated cancer in my uterus, but she didn’t know if it was scattered there from the leep procedure.  She said they have to test to see if the cancer may have spread to the pelvic wall.  Anyway, she told me she was hopeful.  I didn’t like that word hopeful.  It sounded like I had a possibility of living.  Just a possibility?  I wanted to hear, “don’t worry, we will take the cancer out and you will never have to worry again.” Most of the time when I say, “I hope so” usually it means I’m doubting it will happen but I hope it will.  I can’t imagine anything more scary than being told you have cancer.  No matter how great or how small, the fear is the same.

Anyway, hope IS a good thing.  Without hope there is nothing to look forward to. In the Bible, hope is never a static or passive thing. It is dynamic, active, directive and life sustaining. This is everywhere obvious as we read the Word.

1 Corinthians 15:19 If in Christ we have hope in  this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.