This feels funny. What do you think it is?” Those words from my wife, Becky, two days after our thirty-fifth wedding anniversary in August 2015, changed our lives.
My physician-trained fingers knew that what she felt wasn’t good. She had an enlarged liver. The next day a CT scan confirmed my fears. She had a pancreatic mass with metastatic disease throughout her liver—in other words, metastatic pancreatic cancer. . . .
We sometimes expect that as children of God, we should be spared trials and sorrow. But trials and sorrow are God’s classrooms.
We desire the end product—being perfect and complete—while rejecting the process. And the process is trials, then patience. In His love, mercy, and grace, God will bring us through the process that He has ordained for us. Instead of rejecting the process, I decided to embrace it.
I know that God is at work in my life. I am not abandoned. I am not forgotten. I am right where God wants me.
I am not abandoned. I am not forgotten. I am right where God wants me.
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Kurt Harding, DO, FAAFP, is a member of Bethel Baptist Church, Vestal, N.Y., and the medical director of primary care at UHS Chenango Memorial Hospital, Norwich, N.Y.
