Friends would ask me, “Do you mind if I posted your name to our prayer group at my church so we can pray for you?”
“That would be wonderful, yes, please pray for the success of my treatments and a speedy recovery.” I replied.
Prayer was a wonderful supportive step for me to ask God to help me fight cancer. One of my challenges was to take time off at work as sick leave for surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments. I worked for the State of California for three years before my cancer diagnosis so I had accumulated very little sick leave.
I was very fortunate that my employer had a Catastrophic Leave Program. This allowed other workers to donate their leave credits of vacation, annual leave, or personal holidays to employees in extreme hardship. My supervisor prepared a request for Catastrophic Leave for me as I headed into abdominal resection surgery October 2003. I needed six months of leave credits to recover from my treatments.
After my surgery, I called my boss to see how I was doing with the Catastrophic Leave donations and he reported, “Doug you had the second highest amount of Catastrophic Leave ever recorded in this district. You must have many friends here at Caltrans. You have six months of donations for Catastrophic Leave.”
That day I realized Angels surrounded me. Angels disguised as my coworkers.
This text came into my email from some unknown source:
People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
When someone is in your life for a reason, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometime s they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a season, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.
When someone is in your life for a reason, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometime s they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a season, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.
Lifetime relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
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