Perspective

I hate cancer. I hate death. I hate sickness. I hate pain. I hate ilness and anything else that hurts people. Now, I know for certain that God never intended this to enter our world. The bible is clear that we turned the world over to the rule of the devil when we chose to sin. Oh, I hate sin too. It's not that I don't sin or don't like to sin from time to time, but I wish it wasn't even there. One of the things I'm looking forward to in heaven is the absence of the devil and all the stuff he suggests we do. I don't like to sin 'cause it hurts my Dad (God) and it causes death in me, and those are 2 good reasons to avoid it.

I have a cousin who is very, very sick with cancer right now. We stopped by her house Saturday evening to see her and I realized again how much I hate cancer and all that other stuff. Cancer has taken a beautiful, intelligent, loving young woman with a husband and 2 children to take care of and confined her to a chair in her living room. She has to take meds to keep fighting and meds to make her feel better from what the other meds are doing to her. It's just disgusting and heartbreaking. After spending a few minutes with her I realized that I had no problem in dealing with my cancer. You ask me how I'm doing and I'll just say, "great". There's just nothing wrong with me when compared with others. I guess that's called "perspective", right?

Perspective is a good thing in my opinion. It allows you to step back and see things from a different view. I’ve always explained the mystery of God that way. It’s like you’re looking at a tall office building from 2 miles away. You can see the whole building and you can tell the color, shape and some of the nuances of the structure and you think, “Yes, I’ve seen that building and I know what it looks like”. But, the closer you get to the building the more detail you can make out and you realize that what you saw before was only a small bit of the beauty of the building. The closer you get, the more you see and the more there is to see. It all has to do with your perspective.

So, I take a look at my life and the small amount of trouble and pain I’ve experienced and I compare it to others and I just can’t complain. I’ve been blessed beyond anything I could have ever dreamed would have happened to me. I almost lost my life when I was younger due to stupidity and sin and now realize that I don’t deserve any of this wonderful life God has given me. .