A Month of Sickness: A Month of Grace
It’s exactly a month since I felt my first symptoms from my Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and my 21st day at St. Lukes Medical Center Global City. Time surely flies so quickly. I am now in the middle of my first cycle of aggressive chemotherapy. I’ve had 2 doses of Vincristine and Idarubicin for the past two weeks, on L-Asparaginase for 4 days straight out of 12 days, and had my 2nd intrathecal chemotherapy that was injected in between my spine today. Whew! That’s a lot of drugs and procedures! So please, leukemia cells, die!!
What allows me to share this boldly with everyone is because in each moment of fear, pain, weakness, and uncertainty, God’s grace abounds! I’ve never felt and experienced an overflow of God’s grace in my life until now.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 says, “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
This journey has been a very humbling journey for me. Indeed, when we are brought to our lowest of lows, we will be overwhelmed by how sufficient and even abundant God’s grace is! In each chemo infusion, the Lord keeps me comfortable. In each procedure, the Lord guides the hands of my doctors and keeps me from feeling pain. In my every need of blood and platelet transfusion, the Lord sends people to donate. In each passing day in the hospital, the Lord provides for my every need. In times of fear, He gives me the strength and peace.