Anonymous
June 26, 2016 at 8:09 PM
Thank you for sharing your precious, simple truths dear Julia. They are so very real and important. Continued prayers for you and your dear family in this season and I hope you can enjoy your summer fully! xo Glenda
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.
Lesley Dalgarno
June 26, 2016 at 8:20 PM
Julia, I am not religious. Raised in a liberal thinking church going family, confirmed in a United Church at 16 and perhaps that was the end of my exposure to bible verses and formal religious education. Yet, I learn much from reading your posts and how you draw strength and reflect from bible verses, Jesus and God. What would I do under your circumstances? Perhaps turn to nature for my spiritual strength as I am drawn to the Buddhist way of thinking of eternal life. I envy the strength you can find in your faith. I learn from you with every open, honest, heart felt post. You sharing your journey is a gift to everyone who reads it. Love Lesley D.
Mary Smith
June 27, 2016 at 7:11 PM
Dear Julia, I have not met you…but have been a friend of your Aunt Barb….and my late husband, Harold knew your Dad well from living in Mtl …I journeyed with my husband through cancer twice…one in which he was healed (both his Drs. used the term miracle) and given the gift of life for 28 years to help raise our 5 young children..and a second in which God healed him by taking him to Heaven. I was encouraged by your very well put thoughts above about your journey…and found too, that I would not have wanted to miss the precious things that the Lord taught us…and his tender mercies in the midst of very dark, frightening times….(but could not honestly say I would choose to go through the trials again!) We were encouraged by knowing that God understood when we didn’t always ‘Trust and not be afraid’..because He also said, “What time I am afraid, I will trust in You” In 1986, as I sat awaiting my husband’s return from a surgery in which they just closed him up because the cancer was around his vital organs and couldn’t remove any of it, thinking about how I might have to raise our 3 preschool boys and newborn girl, Amy Jo (a friend of your cousin, Heather’s) alone, the Lord gave me what proved to be a “life-line verse” in the days to come, Psalm 9:9,10…another life line verse was shared with me by someone who had 2 children with a disease expected to be fatal by age 20..”God has NOT given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind” During the last journey through my husband’s cancer, the Lord gave us songs for different stages….and I would sometime pray, “Lord I need a new song”…One of the songs was Blessings, which my husband put on the wall and still hangs there. Laura Story has just written a book titled, When God doesn’t Fix it (her husband had a brain tumor and still is affected afterwards) She has just started an on line Bible study using it…and for a short time the videos are available on line…and worth watching, even if you don’t do the study…. I think we all wrestle with the questions she shares….why God allows terrible things to happen–especially to those who are trying to follow the Lord.. (my daughter in law & son are serving in missions & was hit by a hit and run snowmobile on their honey moon…smashed both her legs very badly…She has had a long road to recovery. As we have heard of your journey, it too doesn’t make sense…this side of Heaven…
Praying for peace, strength, and healing…and blessing on the ‘medical mission’ you never wanted to sign up for…Mary Smith
http://www.faithgateway.com/when-god-doesnt-fix-it-bible-study-home/week-1-dont-be-surprised-by-trouble/ week 1
http://www.faithgateway.com/when-god-doesnt-fix-it-bible-study-home/week-2-best-made-plans/ Week 2 Video
Anonymous
June 27, 2016 at 9:15 PM
Julia, an amazing walk. I would like to share John MacArthur’s video, “Why does evil dominate the world”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNBYYszufxs. It starts a bit slow but has a powerful ending with deep spiritual truth. I don’t want to spoil the ending for you but it supports the truths you have discovered. God is in control of everything. He is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-loving. Blessings….xx
Jill Gallant
July 27, 2016 at 9:32 AM
Dearest Julia, thank you! Thank you LORD God, again and again for Julia’s sincere honesty, thank you LORD God for creating your beautiful beloved daughter and blessing us with such a precious gift in her! LORD, I thank you for the new medicine and the skilled doctors that are treating her. I thank you for your faithfulness each day and that you alone are truly the steadfast “Anchor of her Soul.” Dear LORD, I pray that all of us will continue to be faithful in prayer and be guided by you as Julia, allows us to share her journey with us. In you alone LORD God be the glory and honour, in Jesus’ life giving name, Amen Psalm 65:5 You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness, O God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas