The storm + His Goodness

Oh dear family and friends, it is with such a heavy heart I share that my sweet mama has brain cancer. We don’t understand the storm that is glioblastoma, and we are caught in a whirlwind that has turned our lives upside down. There are so many details to share, and many of you know them already. There is no right or wrong way to share earth shattering news, and who knows if I am doing it wrong or right, BUT God. I am choosing to stand on the truth of His word and share this story in hopes it brings glory to His name alone.

Friends, you are carrying us in ways I can’t even to express adequate gratitude for. God is so very good. In this storm He has proven unbelievably faithful. I hope to share the details of His faithfulness in the coming days, and I hope in doing so it is an encouragement to you.

My sweet mama will have a massive brain surgery tomorrow. My brother and I don’t understand how we can be facing traumatically loosing a second parent. We are reeling with the what-ifs and the reality that life is and will never be the same. There is no cure for this type of cancer and the statistics are grim. BUT we have doctors who believe our mama is not a statistic and instead is a fighter. AND we have a miracle working God.

You know what though? I have peace and confidence knowing that even if we don’t receive a miracle in the way I am literally (to use my 11 year old’s favorite word) begging God for…. God is good and faithful. We are not promised tomorrow, but we are called to glorify Him with our lives, and so we will face this storm and choose to use every ounce of this trial to bring Him alone glory.

HE is our strength. HE is our help. HE is our peace. HE is our eternity. To live is Christ and to die is gain. One day my sweet mama will enter heaven and be told good and faithful servant, and until that day she, and we along with her will strive to use every opportunity to make His name known.

I hope you will pray with us, and I hope you will be encouraged by our story. Only in walking through pain do you really understand that we were never made for this world. I am so thankful for a God who is holding us close.

Over the past month my precious James and I have ben memorizing Psalm 46 for his 3rd grade recitation. Little did we know that God was preparing our hearts with truth and what will become the anthem of this storm. My dearest friend texted me this same psalm last week saying that God had laid it on her heart, and all I could do was smile. Of course He did.

Psalm 46

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at his swelling.

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.

God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;

God will help her when morning dawns.

The nations rage and the kingdoms totter; He utters His voice and the Earth melts. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our fortress.

Come behold the works of the Lord, how He has brought desolation on the earth. He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire.

Be Still and Know that I am God.

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth!

The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.