God's Peace

Everyone has always told me how wonderful God's peace is. The thing is, I never fully understood it or fully felt it, until this past Wednesday, April 15.


April 15, 2015 was the day of my mom's surgery for her cancer. Going into the day I had so many nerves and fears. I kept praying for God to take care of my mom, to work a miracle, and guide the doctors hands. When I sat in the waiting room, I first just kind of sat there nervously and kept fidgeting with things and moving around constantly. Then, I finally decided I needed to do something to get my mind off of my mom being in surgery. I pulled out my devotional book that I had brought along with me and began to read it. The first few pages had nice reminders and I continued to read, then I began to read verses and words and of wisdom that had to do with trusting God, relaxing in God's peace, and having faith in him. Suddenly, it hit me. I truly began to feel God's peace. I finished reading, closed my eyes and just began to meditate on God and really pray to him with my heart. And I suddenly felt so relaxed, almost like God had placed a comfy blanket on me. And I just felt right there that I had nothing to be worried about because everything was going to be just fine and God had everything in control. I was then able to fall asleep for a little bit and read a book and just truly relax.


And what do you know, God answered my prayers and everything was ok. They did a hysterectomy, removed the lymph nodes in her abdomen and a fatty lining in her abdomen. Which was the minimum they were going to have to do. And the doctor found NO SIGNS OF CANCER anywhere in her, and he checked everything very thoroughly. It was definitely a huge praise God moment and we were all very happy to hear such good news. And, too, when I got that news I really just felt God say to me "I told you everything is going to be just fine, you will all get through this!"


So now, I definitely have this newfound and very faithful belief that God will see this journey to the end and we will get through and we will be ok and everything is going be just fine. And I am at peace knowing that even in the toughest, scariest moments, God is right there, holding us, and reminding us it will be fine and to just trust Him.


I just wanted to share this with you all to let you know that God is always there and will help you through everything. You just need to find peace in him and trust him and keep your faith. Also remember that God is bigger!

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