We arrived a few minutes later the
girls and I run a Bible Study for Youth, have all sat in the pergola where we
met, I asked, "Let's go check out the poll ... as a person who will go
first?"
One of the girls, filled with good
news, he could not refrain. His behavior is not ordinary. This girl is often at
the forefront of things. But there is something different. He has a smile on
his face that belied what to share.
"Fiona (not her real name) has
cancer!"
CANCER.
I had one of those moments where I
feel I have been deceived, but I know I cheated (if I have cheated) is the
result better than the 'so-called' teenage girl is to joke about something that
serious.
He was not joking.
Fiona was suffering from cancer. A
type of cancer that young. A cancer that they think they caught it early. But
he has a series of chemotherapy treatments to bear; in fact, he has already
begun. And she has some large-scale operation invasive to the future.
I asked Fiona to share information
with the group about the cancer. I asked him to share how he will be mentally
and emotionally ... and spiritually. It would be good, and everyone can see it.
Just baptized a month ago, after cultivation because many of the girls in the
program, she was motivated to see how God can use the fact that he has cancer;
using his story to His Kingdom. He said he felt that his faith was real. I
asked the rest of the group to share. "How else did you hear?" All
people share how they were sent to share. A girl just said that she is still in
shock. We talked about the grieving process; loss. As we often do. But this
session is different.
Humor the girl obviously keep Fiona
both the optimistic and on the ground. I say that in Romans 12 we are talking
the love of Community, where we weep with those who weep and rejoice with those
who rejoice. If laughing with Fiona, they must have cried with him. All
silently agreed that it would be so.
I will come to the Bible study is
ready to share in Matthew 06: 25-34, where Jesus said: "do not worry about
tomorrow, because tomorrow has enough problems for us to handle and do not
worry in any case, what you will eat, drink or wear, because God will supply
all Your needs. "The Holy spirit precedes all of us. When I read the words
of this verse that the area is quiet rocky - Fiona especially wise.
Fiona taught me something. The
girls taught me something. They have once again shown; the community gives us
the strength to fight with courage the misfortunes that will the floor we if we
must travel that journey hard.
None of us pretend that everything
is fine just because it runs well on the current at the top. There are a lot of
difficult moments and forward can be addressed to Fiona and her friends.
Loss teaches us that when the
unexpected; that we overcome quite a pain to achieve, until one day we will
look back and ask, "When did the pain go?"
But in the Community, the
difficulties are made more palatable.
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