Inspirations and encouragements

Well, the suffering is done and over with.  My grandma passed this morning, and my feelings about this are bittersweet.  This word, bittersweet, seems to be a theme for me for the last three weeks after having the most wonderful time in Tennessee visiting Ray, my best friend and co-founder of Frees.  He has been so good through all of this, and the irony is not lost on either of us that the cancer situations that we have both been through--him with his mom and another very close personal friend--and me with my grandmother--have borne striking similarities to one another.  We believe that God has divinely connected us, and I believe that it is for the divine purpose that this group should grow and prosper into the support system that I believe God intended it to be.  Now a little bit about my state of mind during the last few days of her life:  As I have written before, I have had times in which I have thought that I couldn't go on watching...

Readers may remember that on Friday I was saying that I think God allows bad things to happen so that good may come out of it.  As I sit here writing this blog entry now I am really wondering what kind of good can come out of the suffering of my grandmother.  I have said to people in the past that it seems like allowing someone as old as my grandmother to get cancer seems like a very cruel joke.  I mean, she is eighty=seven years old, and, I don't mean this to sound cruel, but she will die soon enough, in my opinion, without her having to suffer through cancer.  I ask myself: "If Jesus suffered and sacrificed Himself for my sins, then why can my family and I not suffer for love of Him, but sometimes I feel like stuff like this is just too much, especially for such an elderly woman who has already been through so much.  I just thank God that He gave me this forum in which I and others can express our thoughts.  Since the birth of Frees, starting ...

As I was in the shower this morning it was given to me by the Holy Spirit that I should let the readers of this blog know that my faith is very important to me. It was God who has given me the idea for Frees, and, since He is so important in my life, He made it known to me that I need to tell the readers that Frees is a Christian support system. Many times it is asked: "Why would God allow people to go through such horrible things as cancer?" I believe the answer is simple. It is so that good can come of it and I hope that we can do many good things for people using this forum. I hope that anyone who reads this will see the good that we can deriveout of something which, on the surface, looks bad. I beieve that this is our mission.

Okay so here goes.  I think that you guys will find this a lot easier to use, and so I will be moving our blog as of right now.  Those of you who wish to continue to use Livejournal are free to do so, but I will be emailing the link for the site we are going to use as a support organization very shortly.