Breast Cancer Healer

I often see it in their eyes before I hear it in their voices.

“Oh, you had cancer? Oh, I’m sorry.”

Then they go on their way, not having any idea how difficult it is to reconcile my past experience with my current reality.

It’s a daily reckoning.

This print by Jessica Bond (Salt and Gold Collection) called ‘Breast Cancer Healer’ takes me back to the beginning and the vulnerability I still feel some days.

Weak.

Not able to defend myself.

Incapable of balancing the weight that is breast cancer on my own.

But in those early days I was also carried in ways too innumerable to contend this reminds me I always will be.

As much as I’m grateful for the time and distance slowly growing between me and my diagnosis day, I will never forget the season I sensed that something otherworldly had stepped in to fight on my behalf.

The force of God’s power to face head on what no else could.

The magnitude of His felt presence in the deepest caverns of my heart where there was nothing left.

That time He gently gathered me up and said, “I’ve got this.”

He went to battle on my behalf, even as He cradled me in His arms.

Isaiah 46:4
I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.