I have lived through a recent combination of coming back to the Lord and then being diagnosed with cancer and having major surgery to remove it. When I was separated from the Lord, work was a daily drudgery that I did because I love my family and because it the way I was raised. After getting my spiritual life straightened out, I realized that work was a blessing, an opportunity to live and interact with others as a Christian man.
I haven’t been able to work for the last couple of months and for the first time as an adult I truly miss it. I will finally be able to return later this month and I praise God that I have the opportunity.
In a strange way, getting cancer has brought me closer to the Lord and everyone I interact with, I am more at peace now than I have been in decades. Each day is a blessing and opportunities to interact with others is now cherished rather than avoided.
I don’t want to hijack your thread but the whole experience has been profound to me and I wanted to share my experience.
God bless you dangerdoc. If this thread is being hijacked, it’s by the Holy Spirit informing the testimony you have conveyed.