On
August 31st, 2014 I went to the Oncologist at the Cancer Institute here in
Mexico. I was confident, knowing that I had prayed and declared God’s promises
over my life and that they would tell me it was a huge mistake and I did not
have cancer at all.
At the
waiting room, the hour and a half I waited was an eternity, like suspended in a
place with no time. In sort of a safety place in my mind, not to think, for not
waiting or keeping me from not expecting anything… in other words, I was
paralyzed.
Finally,
I entered the doctor’s office making my way through a crowded waiting room, as
the hospital looked like a flea market. It is stunning how so many women are
continuously diagnosed every day in that place. The offices are tiny and one
next to the other, with a small thin wall like cubicles, so you can hear your
neighbor’s doctor. It was hard to focus, mostly when the doctor tells you “I’m
sorry ma’am you have got cancer”. Then she said several things that I don’t remember. I was in
shock. I put myself together in my mind and I heard her saying: “we have to
start with chemotherapies this upcoming Saturday. There’s still hope, we’re
still on time, as the cancer you’ve got is very aggressive but most likely you
may survive if you start immediately”.
“Go to
social work so they tell you how to handle your insurance, as chemotherapy is
very expensive for someone is not insured.”
I only
managed to ask her what type of cancer it was, if it had name and last name.
She only said that it was a tumor stage 3 and she said goodbye by shouting “next
please”. That was it.
I went
out from that place without the willing to understand what had happened in
there. I got into the car, I started it and drove. It was when fear found the way
to be transformed in to horror that started to go up through my spine. I pulled up,
took a deep breath and let myself feel that horrible feeling. I thought of my
daughter my only daughter, my ministry, my daughter, my work, my daughter
again, my life, my daughter!
I cried
and wept without thinking in anything else. At flashes of calm I tried to speak
to God, but I couldn’t, I was drown in a deep pain, I went into pieces. After a
while, I forced myself, I came to my senses and I shout to the Lord, I asked
Him to receive all that pain in my soul and that sorrow as I knew it might hurt
me and I was supposed to go back home with enough strength. I couldn’t let my
daughter to be affected by that deep sorrow I was feeling before the
possibility of not being with her at some point, or so I thought.
And of
course I asked God: “why me Lord? Why?”. I remember hearing His voice saying “why
not”… I was not expecting that answer from Him. I meditated on it and I asked
to myself, “that is true… why not?”
Up to
that moment I was always said my life wasn’t mine, but God’s. That He could do
anything in me, that I could not be in better hands! That God knew better what’s
best for me. That he laughs about my plans because He has better dreams than
mine for my life.
Up to
that moment I had quit my own life, so He could take over everything that
happens in my life, His life.
Then,
why not?
From
weeping I went to laughter and I realized although up to then I had lived by
faith, it was time to live, to show all in all my faith was settle upon Jesus
my Rock.
I felt
a deliverance and I offered everything to the Lord saying: “If you go I go. I
don’t understand any of this but I know that you Father will take my hand. I
will go through the Death Valley holding hands tightly, because You my Lord go
with me, no matter the circumstances. You are God and keep on being God, and I
thank you and bless you, I worship you and I won’t stop honoring you and giving
glory to you my God, because I don’t walk by sight but by faith and you are no
man to lie or son of men to repent, you said you will never forsake me, but you
will hold me with your righteous and powerful hand.
I was
drown in a deep peace. I was
at disposal. No looking back, no regrets, no doubts, no guilt, no resentment. He
would tell me where and how to walk this new path. The only thing I could
perceive at that moment is that my life as it was known up to then, would never
be the same. And that the joy of the Lord would be the only thing that would
give me strength.





