What Cancer Cannot Do

 

Friday, Eric and I went to Mayo Clinic to follow up on the MRI I had on Tuesday. They wanted me to have an Ultra Sound because they found something on the MRI.  
The UltraSound concluded the same result the MRI technician completed with, I have another lump in the right breast and one in the left breast that they are concerned about. This news was tough to hear. When Eric and I left, we got to the car, and I was trying so hard to hold in tears and not be a big baby. However, I looked over at Eric, and he was crying, so here it is, both of us crying, the first break down, and we could share it together. I love him so much, and I told him I just feel so bad for him; I don't want him to have to go through this. I told him I was sorry; I never thought this would ever be something we would experience. He looked at me and said that he would be with me every step of the way; he would hold my hand through the good and the bad, we would get through this together.  
When I got home to my wonderful surprise, there was a gift on the table from a friend in our ward, Dena Weech; she too is a cancer survivor and knows the feelings I am experiencing. The gift she gave me could not have come at a better time; I needed to hear it. It is a framed quote that she said someone had given her when she was going through her cancer experience. Thank you, Dena, for sharing this with me. This is what it said:
What Cancer Cannot Do:
Cancer is so limited....yet in all these things
It Cannot cripple love. It cannot alter hope
we are more than conquerors through him who loves us
It cannot corrode faith, it cannot destroy peace...
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life
It cannot kill friendship; it cannot suppress memories...
Nor principalities nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height depth
It cannot silence courage; it cannot invade the soul...
Nor any created things shall be able to separate us from the love of God
In cannot steal eternal life; it cannot conquer the spirit...
Which is in Christ Jesus our Lord Romans 8:37-39