Staying Positive in Negative Times

                        Staying Positive in Negative Times

Staying positive in positive times is easy.  Staying positive in negative times is an entirely different matter, but it can be done.  My key to positivity is God.

Recently I lost my best friend and partner to cancer.  Immediately after, before there was even a memorial service for him, I found out that my dear sweet daughter of 34 years old was diagnosed with a malignant tumor on her brain stem.  The tumor is inoperable due to the delicate area it is located.  The prognosis is poor because the tumor cannot be eliminated.  It is woven amidst important nerves that affect everything from speech to eyesight to movement.  She will receive radiation and chemo to shrink it as much as possible but it will come back.  It ALWAYS come back......so say the doctors.....

BUT

I know that my God is more powerful than any malignant tumor.  With one breath he can completely eliminate it.  When she was a child, he healed her ears right before an operation after we prayed all night.  When she went in for her post op exam, the doctor was amazed.  Her ears were fine with no sign of having had a problem.  He called in miraculous...with no scientific explanation.

Another time He saved her from being hit by a car.  She chased a ball into the street right in front of a car.  I heard the tires squeal, and saw the woman jump out of the car, saying, "If that man had not pulled her out of the way, I would have certainly hit her."  I asked "what man?"  There was nobody else there.  This all happened in a split second.  No human being would have had time to pull my daughter out of the way of the car and leave without being seen.  I have no doubt it was an angel that saved my daughter.

I believe God will save her again this time.  In our weakness, God's strength is revealed.

Do I get down and sad about all that is going on?  Certainly, for I am only human.  But I know that God is always there with me, holding me close.  We are all of his children and his plans for us are good, and His plans are always the best...even if we do not always recognize it at the moment.

So whatever you may be going through in your lives, hold fast to God, the maker of the universe.  He is more powerful than any problem you have going on.  This realization will help you remain positive in negative times.