There is a "Way"

As Christians, focusing on answered prayer should be a daily practice. We serve a Living God whose ears are attentive to the cries of our hearts. Nate and I know all to well the desperate plea to the Creator to make straight something that has become crooked. As many of you are probably very acquainted with our 'cancer story' there was something that happened to us in the midst of that dark valley. 

Hand in hand we walked away from fear, disease, sadness...longsuffering. The 'deliverance'' has always been such a clear picture in our minds. But as we walked away, deep inside our hearts there was a stirring. We couldn't help but turn around and remember the hospitals full of patients of all ages...children...and think to ourselves, what about them?

As the daughter of this Mighty King, I have often pictured myself holding onto His leg, like my little girls do with their daddy. They know if they stay on their daddy's leg long enough, even while he's trying to walk around...he'll look down at them. And the look is priceless. That's what Nate and I are hoping this fast and these prayers will be to the Great God of this universe. We know that if we hang onto His leg long enough, He'll look down at us and just like my husband says to our little girls, the Lord will say to us, 'What do you want?"

Now, this may be the part where many and even some Christians look at Nate and I, or others that have joined the "CureCancerFast' and think "there's just no way' but I have learned one thing about 'answered prayer'...that is why we pray. Often times prayer comes because 'there is just no way'. Yet, is it not very fitting that the Savior, calls Himself 'the Way'?

Cancer makes you feel lost. It has that continual thought process of 'what now', but not anymore. I had a very vivid moment the day we found out Nate had been diagnosed with cancer. I remember going outside and standing in front of my house, alone, with a sigh, realizing the Lord had placed me and my husband in this valley. A simple truth fell upon my nervous heart.

Why does this valley have to be dark without hope? We have 'the Way'. He that is 'the Way' will navigate you through your darkest valleys. He is so wise that He has given Himself names that great 'human' authors of this day could never have thought of, like 'I AM'. There is no battle to great for this Mighty King.

​So why not 'cure' cancer?

​One thing I know, I will not stand before Him one day and say, 'Father, why didn't You take away that awful disease that plagued earth for years and years and years?" Just to hear Him answer, 'Because my child, no one ever asked Me if I would."