Bad News Is Just An Exercise In Faith

My DH has the dreaded Hepatitis C Virus.  For the past eight months he has been undergoing an aggressive treatment program to kill the virus before it damages his liver.  Our bi-monthly visit to our Hep Doc Doctor Phillips was on Monday.  His attitude is usually so positive the wit on the tip of my tongue wants to ask him for a prescription for what he takes.  Surely it must be something good, because I’m certain he’s not wearing rose-colored glasses.  Positive thinking and it’s healing value are taken to a new level of expectation by this dear man.  Sometimes I actually question his reality base or wonder if he is looking over the wrong patient chart.  Yesterday was different.  There was no positive flavor to his words.  His usual vibrant energy was subdued.  In a nutshell, the treatment is killing the virus…and my husband.   We are now in a race with time.  We are racing against the negative, life-threatening effects of the anti-viral and and the last week of treatment.  Can my DH complete the treatment before our doctor has no choice but to stop the treatment?  We don’t know.  Will the past eight months of treatments be for nothing?  We don’t know that either.  Some adjustments have been made to the meds my DH is taking, and our time between visits goes from two months to one (sounds like we’re close to delivery! :)), but nothing else but wait and see can be done medically.  Or…can it.  We’ve determined to continue to trust God.

Bad news is just an exercise in faith.  My DH is in physical trouble, but God is still in control.  He still holds us in His hands, and He still already knows the outcome of this grueling trial.  It is during times like these our core faith is tested.   We’re committed to keep on trusting God and glorifying Him whatever may come.  Thank goodness we only have to take one day of this race at a time…The big picture is far to heavy to shoulder.  Thank God He is willing to carry us through.

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it, likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.  Viktor E. Frankl

I don’t know who Viktor E. Frankl was/is, but I like that quote!

Until next time…Keep exercising your faith…good news, bad news or no news at all.

And remember…

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.  Hebrews 13:5

 

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