Post by Rick Redner on Mar 1, 2015 12:03:19 GMT -5
I came across this years after I was diagnosed with cancer, and I wish I'd read this on the day I received my diagnosis.
If prayer is (or may become) an important part of your life, once you are diagnosed with prostate cancer there is much to pray about. For me, my first prayer had to do with coping with the fear, and anxiety I experienced once I received the news I had prostate cancer. I prayed for wisdom to make the right treatment decision. I prayed for a peace that surpasses all understanding. I prayed for healing and the willingness to accept whatever God's will was for my life. I came across this recently and I wished I'd read it shorty after I was diagnosed. Here it is:
Once you become careful, anxious, fretful, you will never be able to count your cares, even though you might count the hairs of your head. And cares are apt to multiply to those who are care-full and when you are as full of care as you think you can be, you will be sure to have another crop cares growing up all around you.Cares are numerous and, therefore, let your prayers be as numerous. Turn everything that is a care into a prayer. Let your cares be the raw material of your prayers and, as the alchemists hoped to turn dross into gold, so you, by a holy alchemy, actually turn what naturally would have been a care into spiritual treasure in the form of prayer.
Charles Spurgeon
If prayer is (or may become) an important part of your life, once you are diagnosed with prostate cancer there is much to pray about. For me, my first prayer had to do with coping with the fear, and anxiety I experienced once I received the news I had prostate cancer. I prayed for wisdom to make the right treatment decision. I prayed for a peace that surpasses all understanding. I prayed for healing and the willingness to accept whatever God's will was for my life. I came across this recently and I wished I'd read it shorty after I was diagnosed. Here it is:
Once you become careful, anxious, fretful, you will never be able to count your cares, even though you might count the hairs of your head. And cares are apt to multiply to those who are care-full and when you are as full of care as you think you can be, you will be sure to have another crop cares growing up all around you.Cares are numerous and, therefore, let your prayers be as numerous. Turn everything that is a care into a prayer. Let your cares be the raw material of your prayers and, as the alchemists hoped to turn dross into gold, so you, by a holy alchemy, actually turn what naturally would have been a care into spiritual treasure in the form of prayer.
Charles Spurgeon