Hopefully all goes well for round 6. I am feeling incredibly calm, more then any time previous. I actually slept a record amount of time for being on steroids. Over four hours, that was a lovely thing. I believe I am developing extreme coping skills. Why do I think this? I thought I would like to share that with you.
I can realize my physical condition is not
a condition of my wholeness
I am held in the hands of God
and I am perfectly,
honestly safe.
In other words the faith to be healed in all the ways that I need to be healed by the Lord
I feel the prayers and love of those around me
I have discovered and received knowledge that has blessed me to
know how to deal with my challenges
I would like to testify to the principle of Grace in my life and the enabling power that it provides. It is easy to fall into despair by seeing ourselves or others fall short of what is required. Despair is a tool of the devil to distract us from the gift Christ is offering to us. His love, and grace will change us if we faith to accept the gift. It changes us line upon line. Faith is a principle of action but we do not earn exaltation by our works. Our works are the result of the fruits of the Spirit in our lives, our desire to be obedient, to put our faith in Gods word to the test.
I have found that until I am sufficiently humbled that even if I see I want to change something I will continue to struggle with it. Sometime the Lord is waiting for me to ask before he provides the opportunity. I think he knows sometimes that we are not ready to learn it right when we think we want to and sometime we think I am not ready to learn this right now but if we allow him to tutor us he will be there to teach. Many of these things take practice. Like other skills we are generally not experts the first time we try. And some things come easier to us than others.
If you look at your own life I believe you will see times when significant lessons have been learned. I have found in my own life that most of my significant lessons came from going through extremely hard things. Because of this I have learned that I can do hard things if I turn to the Lord to teach me and get me through it. For sure one thing about going through chemo there have been opportunities to practice, practice, practice some of these principles.
Now at least with this hard thing in my life getting near the end I pray that I remember these lessons and use them in my life where they are needed. That the grace of the Lord will continue to bless us and that we will seek it out and let it change us.
Romans 11:6
And if by
grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it
be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
Hebrews 4:16
Let us therefore
come boldly unto the throne of grace,
that we may obtain mercy, and find grace
to help in time of need.
James 4:6
But he
giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth
grace unto the humble.
Doctrine and
Covenants 93:12
And I,
John, saw that he received not of the fulness at the first,
but received grace
for grace;
Doctrine and
Covenants 93:13
And he
received not of the fulness at first,
but continued from grace to grace, until
he received a fulness;
John 1:16
And of
his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
1
Corinthians 15:10
But by
the grace of God I am what I am:
and his grace which was bestowed upon me was
not in vain;
but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I,
but the
grace of God which was with me.
Moroni 10:32
Yea, come
unto Christ, and be perfected in him,
and deny yourselves of all ungodliness;
and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness,
and love God with all your
might, mind and strength,
then is his grace sufficient for you,
that by his
grace ye may be perfect in Christ;
and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in
Christ,
ye can in nowise deny the power of God.
