Waiting and waiting and waiting.
If you have been diagnosed with cancer, you wait every day.
You wait for your treatment.
You wait for the next doctor’s appointment.
You wait to schedule the surgery.
You wait to return to the normal life you had before cancer.
You wait and wait and wait.
Can I challenge you? Stop waiting. Start embracing the life you have been given. Your life does not stop because of your diagnosis. I know it feels like it, but it does not. Your cancer does not define who you are. It’s a season of life. And believe it or not, it too shall pass.
Evaluate where you are and set some short-term goals as you deal with your treatment. Start small so you feel like you’ve accomplished something. Get out of bed. Take a shower. Brush your teeth. Make your bed. Go for a walk. Move your favorite chair in front of a window. While sitting in that big fat comfy chair in front of the window, journal your day. Is it winter, fall, spring, summer? What do you see? What are you grateful for? When you focus on the things you are grateful for, those things will give you purpose.
How are you waiting? Are you waiting with expectancy? Or with dread, fear, and a sense of despair?
If you are weary, call upon God for strength. The Lord will renew your strength. He will help you walk and not faint. He will help you run and not be weary. He will. He promises.
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the whole earth. He never becomes faint or weary; there is no limit to his understanding. He gives strength to the faint and strengthens the powerless. Youths may become faint and weary, and young men may stumble and fall, but those who trust in the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not be weary, they will walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31
Refocus your faith today and determine to walk through this season of life with a sense of knowing that God has your future in His hands.
Your Breast Friend,
Edie A. Tolbert
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