Rick from Brutally Honest writes:
Not the words you want to hear.
Especially not the words you want to hear when the person talking is directing those words at someone who’s been the love of your life for more than 30 years.
Today, she and I heard those words and many more, most of them foreign, many of them frightening.
There are lots of things going through my mind tonight and most of them I’ll not share, not just yet. What I will do is ask for two specific prayers from those of you who pray regularly (and hell, even from those who don’t).
I ask that you pray for my bride’s well being most obviously, physical particularly but also spiritual. And I ask that you pray I’ll be the husband that she needs in the coming days, weeks and months.
We’re told that we’ve caught this early. We’re told that beating it is more than just possible, that it’s even likely. We’re also told that there’s more to know and that the hope is we’ll know more about what we don’t know in the next few days, all of which will aid in determining how best to fight it.
And fight it we will, with every fibre of our being.
Thank you for your prayers.
Father, we ask for her complete healing from this, to the glory of your Name. We ask that you would grant wisdom, knowledge, skill and compassion to her doctors, and peace, grace, and strength to all who love her. Mother Mary, St. Luke and St. Peregrine, pray for her and all involved in this. We ask this through Christ our Lord.