LIFE AT 60 - PET SCAN RESULTS

OK, here is the long awaited news.   Drum roll please?  No there is not real need for fanfare.  It is a good news, not so good news scenario.  The good news is that the total body PET scan showed that there is NOTHING anywhere in my body, with the exception of my throat!  

So, what do I do now?  Well as I see it, I have 2 choices.  I can run screaming and go hide and stomp my feet and say no, no, no, no, and be mad at God, OR I can continue on this journey, and continue to praise God, and follow His leading, and continue to believe Him for my healing.  So what to do?  I think I will take door #2.  I will continue to trust God, I will continue to praise Him for my healing, and I will continue to trust Him for my needs.  It is really a no brainer so to speak.  He has brought me this far.  The PET scan could have been much worse, and I would be facing much more.  The way this is, I can handle this, with God's help.  

When I spoke to the Dr awhile ago,  I questioned him about WHAT exactly was going to happen on Saturday and he answered with the answers I needed to hear.  NO invasive anything.  A simple biopsy, though I will be knocked out totally.  He will look at the "growth" on the right side of my voice box.  If he takes a sample of that, he will not sample the lymph nodes, if he samples the nodes, he wont do the other.  In his opinion the results are one in the same.  The nodes get their disease from someplace else.  

This is all assuming that it is bad news.  It is not!  I look at this report as basically being good news.  I have no disease in my body anywhere but my throat, and nothing is certain there either.  So we await Saturday, and go from there.  There really is not a choice to make, except that I CHOOSE to believe that God is my healer!  Im standing on the scripture in Mark 11:22-24.  AND JESUS ANSWERED SAYING TO THEM, "HAVE FAITH IN GOD.  TRULY I SAY TO YOU WHOEVER SAYS TO THIS MOUNTAIN, BE TAKEN UP AND CAST INTO THE SEA, AND DOES NOT DOUBT IN HIS HEART, BUT BELIEVES WHAT HE SAYS IS GOING TO HAPPEN, IT WILL BE GRANTED HIM.  THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU,ALL THINGS FOR WHICH YOU PRAY AND ASK, BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE REEIVED THEM, AND THEY WILL BE GRANTED YOU!!

Now unless Im just totally stupid and cant understand what is written, I have to take this at face value and believe that whatever this is in my throat and neck is harmless.

One interesting side effect of this whole scenario, is that Im finding myself to have much more compassion for people.  I have also found myself much more willing to really pray for people, not just a cursory prayer, but honestly pray for their need.  When this 1st started, my faith was really pretty low.  I had 2 good friends at church, Debbie and Terri, tell me not to worry about that because the faith of all the ones praying for me would sustain me, and uphold me, and literally "refill" my faith tank.  Know what?  Its working.  I cannot say that I have ever had this much faith.  Im riding on a spiritual "high" right now, but I also know that one cannot stay there forever, but I know how to refuel from time to time, and that is a process that I had let go for way too long.  I had found myself growing cold and distant.  It is so easy to "get back" to the loving arms of Jesus, and His protection, and His healing, and His comfort.  

Like I said, this is a journey, and this is only 1/2 time.  The 2nd half is yet to come, and Im expecting great things.