of a deal, and not to worry about it. But then a I remember the first week just not really
couple more weeks went by and nothing really looking to God, just feeling frustrated and
changed, it just kind of looked the same. So, in the dumps, woe is me, just kind of feeling
we went back in and they said they didn’t think sorry for myself. Not until about a week after
there was much they could do, but they said the diagnosis, when we went to the hospital at
we could go to an ear, nose, and throat doctor. Saint Frances in Tulsa, and I was reminded of
So we did, and that doctor said the same thing,
but if it would make us feel any better that we
the scripture from Psalms 46:1 that says, “God
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is a refuge in strength and ever-present help in
could go ahead and get surgery on it, so we did.
trouble”. That’s a scripture that I learned back
He said they weren’t expecting much but that [WM] That is a terrifying diagnosis. What in the first grade that I memorized. But that’s
they would send it off to pathology just to make was the journey like for you as walked through when I started looking at my life as I could
a hundred percent sure nothing was wrong. He balancing your faith and whatever fears you either choose to worry about this, or choose to
was really optimistic about the whole thing. might have had? believe that scripture. And believe that truth in
About two weeks later it came back from [Andrew] So actually when I got the news, pathology, and my parents got a call. The little it was kind of hard to process all of that, it lymph node that got removed actually had happened so quickly. I didn’t really know what It was really hard for me, I’m kind of a control
Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in it. I was at school, to do, all I wanted to do was to get my mind freak and like to have everything in a certain
and since my Mom is a teacher there, she was off of it. I didn’t think about looking to God or order, and when I realized that I don’t really have
too. She let the school day go by and drove us anything like that, I did just not want to think control over this, it was really hard to grasp. But
home. I remember coming to the kitchen table about it. We actually went mountain biking after when I thought about it, I could either have
and my Dad was home from work early, which I that, because I love to do that and so I thought my life and circumstance in the hands of the
thought was kind of weird. He was sitting there it would get my mind off of it so I could stop Creator of the universe, who has been alive
with his Bible open and you could feel that thinking about it so much. I did that and came since the beginning of time, or a sixteen-year-
something was wrong. I didn’t know what was home, and when it really hit me was when I was old, who at the time would have been like a
happening, he didn’t seem like his normal self, laying in bed that night. I was thinking that this thirteen-year-old kid. So that’s when I realized
and my Mom had been quiet on the drive home is the stuff you hear about when people are it’s better just to not worry about this and just
from school. That’s when they broke the news going through hard times, and I never thought give it up to God. To let His will be done in my
to me that I was diagnosed with cancer. in a million years that this would be me. life, go alongside Him and just trust Him every
the scripture and realize that God’s got control
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of this and I don’t, and that’s a good thing.
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