Tribulation

John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."

It has been a very difficult past few days. A good friend, Connie Carbone, has been diagnosed with brain cancer which Dr.s say is unoperable and incurable by human means. As Jesus has said in John 16:33, "In this world" we "will have tribulation". Tribulation can be defined as affliction, anguish, burdens, or trouble. and I think that this fits within these parameters. The other thing this verse says to us is that in Jesus we "may have peace". Not in science, medicine, mans abilities, his knowledge, nor in anything of this creation or world, but in Jesus, in Him alone.

We have moved along over a week since this started. I was going to delete it but decided that the preceding was pertinent. Since that was written and much prayer offered before the throne of God, Connie has also been diagnosed with Valley Fever or with unknown maladies. Initial tests, CAT Scans PET scans MRI scans showed nodules in the brain and in the spine. White counts in the blood and in spinal fluid indicated some sort of extreme problems. Cancer treatments specifically radiation was being considered as the only hope. This was was considered temporary because death was supposedly inevitable, blindness occurring within 14 days and loss of function and death within 6-8weeks. They have rerun all of these tests in the last few days and now say that their initial dignoses was not accurate and possibly faulty because of technician error in relation to the scans. They can discover no physical issues at this time and have sent her home. It is interesting to me that they cannot give God credit for the miraculous but those of us who know Him can. Praise God for His abundant Grace and Mercy!

Dinner & Entertainment with Dennis Zeck
There was a good turnout for this event, we probably had about 40 - 50 people including servers, nursery workers and children in the nursery. We were also blessed with the presence of Captain Lightening sans sidekick. We had good food from Rosatis, good fellowship and good entertainment from Dennis. Once again he pointed out to us our need to know the truth because without this knowledge we are easily deceived. He made it clear that the truth we need is found in the Bible and gave us a very valuable nugget of wisdom, "if it's not in the Bible, it's not in the Bible". I'll let ya ponder that one.

Well it's Sunday morning and time for church back later. Jesus loves ya, He's coming soon! Do you know Him?