So Hailey Trainer is the longest living survivor of her form of brain cancer at two years old. A few months ago there was a wonderful birthday celebration of her life. Hailey rolled on the floor and wrestled with her older brother. Now, another tumor...
Amid the horrible news comes the "why" and the wrenching decision-making of the parents, particularly when they've just been through this. I was told one of the really hard parts of the recurrence of cancer is the fact that you know what you are going to be going through. I guess this is time for the Body to come surround the Trainers with love, support, and to bathe them in prayer.
I have started reading a book called Radical with the subtitle "taking your faith back from the American Dream". The first couple of chapters have shared the cost of faith in the third world. Life-risking faith. Pain-submitting faith. I suppose the Trainers can relate a bit right now.
Pray that the Trainers faith remains strong—that they can somehow hold fast to God as they deal with horror here on earth. And that the faith of those (myself included) who hear of this story, or are close with the Trainers perhaps can understand that some of God's allowance is out of the scope of our understanding. And that all He wants us to do is trust Him. And that we are to recognize our alien status in this world. And that He has another world intended for us. Like His first....
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