Sharon's {cancer} Story: Daily Stepping Stones

Nevertheless the Lord your God would not hearken to Balaam; but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you.

Deuteronomy 23:5

No one likes to be sick

and yet we know
It takes sunshine and rain
to make flowers grow...
And if we never were sick
and never felt pain,
We'd be like a desert
without any rain,
And who wants a life
barren and dry
With never a cloud
to darken the sky...
For continuous sun
goes unrecognized
Like the blessings God sends
which are often disguised,
For sometimes a sickness
that seems so distressing
Is a time of renewal
and a spiritual blessing.

Jesus, let my pathway of pain lead me to a garden of healing, a garden in which understanding and compassion are but two of the flowers. Plant me wherever You see fit. Cultivate me. Help me grow, blossom, and bloom.

~ from Daily Stepping Stones by Helen Steiner Rice

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