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A dear friend’s mom was recently diagnosed with stage two uterine cancer that has spread to the cervix. She is only in her fifties.
While I was attending a free workshop held by my naturopathic doctor, a prospective patient came to ask questions. He was diagnosed with stage four brain cancer and given three to six months to live. It has been ten months. He is married and has a six-year-old daughter.
I was at the workshop with my mom and sister, who were asking questions about much lighter health concerns when this man arrived and began sharing his story. We felt so heavy.
Another friend is a few weeks pregnant, and today is showing signs of potential miscarriage.
This quote was in a book I’m reading, and it has taken me over,
“Never be afraid to trust an UNKNOWN future to a KNOWN God.” – Corrie ten Boom
This needs to become the mantra of my life. I am such a worrier, so easily tending to pessimism or despair. My worries about my future overcome my enjoyment of the present so many times. I know that I have been created as a forward-moving type of person, and this drive pushes a lot of my focus toward the future. But it doesn’t need to affect my perception of the possible future.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
I need to dive into this quote, and lay still in it, and soak it up until it saturates me and I ooze it back out.
There is a bit more of the brain cancer patient’s story. He has experienced significant improvement in his health and quality of life since making massive changes to his diet and using natural supplements that his wife researched online. My doctor was visibly impressed with the number of things they were doing “right” to bring natural healing to his body.
My doctor said he has treated many cancer patients, usually after they have already been through chemo or radiation, and the cancer is still present or spreading. He told a story of one patient who had throat cancer. Oncologists removed infected tissue in her throat, doing quite a bit of damage in the process. Then they did radiation and chemo. They told her it was gone. Two years later, she developed a large lump in her tongue. Tongue cancer, they told her. We’ll have to cut out your tongue. She was in her fifties, and a teacher, and loved it. So she found my doctor. He did blood work, a neurotransmitter test, and a heavy metals test (using a hair sample) and uncovered something in her body that he was confident was causing the cancer. He created a homeopathic remedy to the bad substance, and made a mouth and throat spray for her to use. Within two weeks, the lump was half the original size. The patient made an appointment at M.D. Anderson anyway. By the time she got there, the lump was a quarter of the size it had been. They told her the previous records must have been wrong. In another few weeks, the lump was gone. It has now been twenty years since the disappearance of her tongue cancer, and she has had no reoccurrence of cancer anywhere in her body.
My doctor said he has treated several patients with similar results, including two patients with pancreatic cancer (which is always fatal in a short period of time with traditional medical care). However, due to government regulations on naturopathic doctors, it is illegal for him to advertise these successes.
Could it be knowing that God created our bodies, perhaps the answer to our physical ailments is in that creation. What a beautiful job my doctor has, to understand the creation of God enough to help it heal itself. Not drug itself, but heal itself.
This stranger with brain cancer, my friend’s mom, and my pregnant friend…. Their futures are unknown. But their God is known. We don’t know the outcome or the answer. But we know God. I pray they will learn during this time to hang on to He Who is Known even more tightly than before.