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​Faith and Chronic Illness

1/5/2018

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I am a spiritual person. 
I have faith and a belief in something bigger and better than this present we live in.  This isn’t a post about religion.  It’s about me and what helps me get through my days.
 
In my work I support hundreds of stage 4 cancer patients.  I’ve visited more people than I can count who were in their last days. And I attend dozens of funerals a year.  I couldn’t continue doing this job if I didn’t believe in something greater than this life we live.  There has to be an afterlife where there is no cancer or suffering- where we will see our loved ones again. 
​That belief brings me comfort and peace.
 
I was diagnosed with stage 4 genetic liver disease 3 years ago and it was a shock - personally and spiritually.  I didn’t stop believing in God/Jesus Christ, but I did ask, why me?
I’m the person who dedicated my life to a calling of helping cancer patients and I get diagnosed with something just as serious- without any treatment options or cure.  Why?  Ironic much???
 
With my diagnosis, life of scans and watchful-waiting, prescriptions and chronic autoimmune illnesses came a heightened perspective of what it’s like being the patients I have served.  I have first-hand knowledge and empathy and a unique understanding that I didn’t really have before.  Was that God’s plan?  No I don’t think so.  But I think my faith in God lets me see a bigger picture and live the life I have been given with purpose.  Perspective and gratitude and purpose.

Faith is bigger than just yourself. 
I can use whatever I am going through to serve and help others. 
​We can be the light and hope for others and in doing so we help ourselves be more than what our disease makes us.
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