Ask Miss Lisa (Love, Inspiration, Straight-talk, Activation)
If TODAY is THE day…
It has been two years since my stem cell transplant and praise GOD…I am cancer free!
This past two years has taught me a lot. I’m not saying that I’m happy I got cancer, but what I am saying is that it took me getting cancer to make me realize just how much I was wasting my life on dumb stuff.
Stuff like trying to make EVERYTHING perfect and stressing over even the smallest details. Worrying always about absolutely nothing. But having come so close to not being here did make me fearful for my health. I worried that if I stopped wearing my brace, I might fall and become paralyzed. This was my fear because it could actually happen. My spine has sustained so much damage from the cancer that it is permanently broken and very fragile in certain places.
I justified the fear by telling myself…I’m just being cautious. And after I took off the back brace, I still carried the cane for six months longer than the physical therapist suggested. I also justified this as just being cautious.
But isn’t that what faith is all about? Trusting God completely when unpleasant thing “could” happen in life. We can take all the precautions in the world and unpleasant and even…bad things happen anyway.
I have to constantly remind myself that the Lord did not give us the spirit of fear and we must exercise our FAITH daily because GOD is the only one who can truly protect us no matter what precautions “we” take.
Last week, the Lord showed up and showed off and let me know that HE is the only precaution we need. My very dear friend called me a said that she fell down and hit the back of her head on the sidewalk. I told her that she needed to come and pick me up so we could go to the emergency to have her checked out.
I can’t drive anymore due to my spine and I had to pray, Lord please watch over us as she drives both of us to the hospital because if something happened, I would not be able to do anything! She picked me up and I began to look at the steering wheel and foot petals to see how I would be able to maneuver the car if she “happened” to pass out.
Not only did the Lord take us safely to and from the hospital,
HE gave me the strength to push my friend in a wheelchair all day. My friend is over 350 pounds and uses a walker because she and can’t walk long distances….The only precautions we need are PRAYER and FAITH!
Thanks be to GOD!
Matthew 5:14-16
Peace and Blessings,
Lisa
Fear has always been my greatest challenge! I'm always challenging myself to have a "just do it" mentality, but it's still a great struggle. Hopefully, I can say I conquered it soon.
Thanks be to God…my friend is fine and we were both BLESSED by this experience 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Powerful testimony, Lisa! I thank God for giving you the courage and strength to use your faith.
Fear has been on my neck like perfume this year. I’m so tired of it, but trust hasn’t been the easiest quality for me. I’m working on trusting in God and working on my faith, something I’ve never done before. We can fall in to patterns of searching and trying to be perfection and worrying about trivial things…. it takes away from the precious time we have here on earth.
Thanks for sharing 🖤💛
I am always so encouraged by your testimony. Walking in our faith gives us the GODLY strength to move past all fears. I remember when I lost my mom, I often wondered over the years before her death how would I be able to make it through. The Lord in his kindness revealed her imminent date of death, and allowed me to witness her acceptance of salvation of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Christ before her accident. He even told me why she had to have the accident
He had to humble her in her pain so she would call on him.
thank you my dear sister. It’s so amazing, I feel like I know you from somewhere…