MY LIFE IS IN CHAOS...BUT IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL

What do you have going on in your life?  This is Tuesday and I’m thinking ahead to Thursday and calculating what has to be done before then.

“I made the mayonnaise and Ranch dressing but still need to marinate the chicken breasts, slice and freeze them. (My husband needs things to be easy when he makes his own meals.) The laundry is in process and the sheets can be changed on Monday.”

I’m having a third cancer tumor surgery Thursday morning, this time a beast lumpectomy, in the space of four years. Things are relative now: the easy tasks will keep me busy during recuperation while the more difficult ones need to be delegated or put off. It’s a situation that makes me feel out-of-control and that’s something I don’t like at all! I asked the surgeon for a month’s reprieve before the surgery was scheduled to bring a possible change to my situation. I wasn’t sure what could be done but I couldn’t just sit down and do nothing.

My first thoughts, of course, went to familial health. My family has a prolific history of heart problems, high blood pressure and diabetes but no history of cancer. So, that made me think that there is something I’m doing that makes my body fertile for the tainted cells to multiply. Therefore, I begin to investigate the environment that cancer thrives in and what I could do to change that in my body. I’ve read books, watched infomercials and special reports and looked into eating plans so I can help my body become a nuclear wasteland for cancer—a place where it CANNOT grow.

My research indicated that cancer finds sugar to be particularly fertile for its growth as is an oxygen-deprived acidic ecosystem. WOW! That described me exactly. So now what? My plan of attack started with the Whole30 eating plan. This involves: eating lots of meat, of all kinds, which are grass-fed, without antibiotics and artificial hormones; eating lots of fresh (preferably truly organic) fruits & vegetables, of all kinds in all forms; adding in “good” fats of coconut oil, fresh avocados & oil, olive oil and clarified butter; using cage-free chicken eggs; abstaining from: (other) dairy, sugar, legumes, corn, & all grains; and avoiding all processed products (which include preservatives). I admit that it was difficult during the first 30 days of detoxing, but I’ve reaped so many benefits that I continue to cook and eat like this.

This food plan took care of the sugar but what about the acidic pH of my body system? A friend sent me an article that quoted Dr. Otto H. Warburg who won the Nobel Prize for discovering that cancer cannot live in oxygen-saturated surroundings. He suggested a drink that I consume every morning which has not only helped the tumor to shrink but has also helped my GERD situation. Your Body is Acidic

Is the cancer gone? I don’t know for sure but certainly hope it’s being strangled at this moment! I can say with certainty that the tumor has deceased in size during the past 59 days. My doctors are good men and know lots about health but couldn’t help me when I needed it.

As I was listening to Christian radio the other day, the song, “It Is Well With My Soul” came on. I am always moved by the words and decided to look up the backstory on it. I found this information on ¹www.sharefaith.com.

“Horatio Spafford (1828-1888) was a wealthy Chicago lawyer”¹ with everything the American Dream says you need: family, wealth and fame. He was also a devout Christian and even assisted Dwight L. Moody with some of his evangelistic crusades. Surely Horatio was blessed of God and given favor to do His will. Yet…he and his wife “suffered the tragic loss of their young son. Shortly thereafter on October 8, 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed almost every real estate investment that Spafford had.”¹ Then, in 1873, his wife and four daughters were on a ship to Europe that had a collision and all four girls were drowned; only his wife survived.

Where do you go from there? How can you get up and go again or have any hope for the future? Horatio Spafford went to his anchor in life and wrote the lyrics to the well-known hymn, “It Is Well With My Soul”¹:

When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to His cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.

And Lord haste the day, when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.

Refrain
It is well (it is well),
with my soul (with my soul),
It is well, it is well with my soul.

God’s love is so powerful that just being in his presence brings healing: spiritually, emotionally and physically. So, to my Savior and Master I have run. It is He who created me, loves and cares for me, redeemed me and set me aside to be with him in Heaven; it is He who will heal me.

Ladying for June 28: My soul is well despite the chaos around me. I am immersed in his love and can only return it with everything I have. I pray you will find that too!