How often do we experience trials and hardships in life? Perhaps we are going through personal and family crisis such as terminal illness, breakdown of relationship between husband and wife, between parent and child, or between friends. Don’t we sometimes feel like the world is crumbling down on us? At times like these, we need to pray and ask God to open our eyes to have a better understanding of His plan for us. Then we will realize that all our anxieties in this life are short-lived. Then shall have the courage and strength to accept the apparently meaningless sufferings in this life, knowing that through it all, God is on our side. All it takes is to trust that nothing is impossible with God.
When I found out that my wife had cancer, it felt like the grey skies were drifting slowly into our life and darkness was closing in. I had to make a choice whether to let darkness engulf us or let light shine out of darkness. The Lord, in His goodness, made me choose light and helped me find ways to let its glimmering brilliance shine back into our life.
Jeremiah 29:12-13a states: “When you call me, and come and pray to me, I will listen to you. When you look for me, you will find me.” These words spoke hope when I felt hopeless and gave voice to my broken heart that often could find no words of its own. There were times when I felt physically, psychologically and emotionally drained in giving care to the person I promised to be with in sickness and in health, but I had to hide from her that hurting soul in me. I did not expect caregiving to be such a soul-crunching, spirit-bending, and body-wearying work. But God granted me a new vision for those I love and with that new vision, a new sense of compassion and grace. He showed me how to share His unconditional, unequivocal and unreserved love.
“Nothing is impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37) Through His word, God whispered to my heart that I had no reason to fear. He, Himself, had formed and shaped my wife. He would work out the details of her life, even a life with cancer, for His glory and her well-being. He had summoned my wife down a path we would not choose. But it was a path He had marked, and I believe He is there every step of the way.
Jeremiah 29:12-13a states: “When you call me, and come and pray to me, I will listen to you. When you look for me, you will find me.” These words spoke hope when I felt hopeless and gave voice to my broken heart that often could find no words of its own. There were times when I felt physically, psychologically and emotionally drained in giving care to the person I promised to be with in sickness and in health, but I had to hide from her that hurting soul in me. I did not expect caregiving to be such a soul-crunching, spirit-bending, and body-wearying work. But God granted me a new vision for those I love and with that new vision, a new sense of compassion and grace. He showed me how to share His unconditional, unequivocal and unreserved love.
“Nothing is impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37) Through His word, God whispered to my heart that I had no reason to fear. He, Himself, had formed and shaped my wife. He would work out the details of her life, even a life with cancer, for His glory and her well-being. He had summoned my wife down a path we would not choose. But it was a path He had marked, and I believe He is there every step of the way.