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A Friend Has Cancer and A Reason to Praise God
10 years ago
Glimpse The Thoughts of Jack the Beaver
I found out a few days ago 
matthiasrat has thyroid cancer and my first reaction was...wow. A friend of mine is sick. Even with something easily treated (as far as cancer goes) that was...wow. You're never ready for something heavy happening to a friend, it just...yeah.
But something else happened while I was reading Matthias' journal, something very odd. I thought of a reason to praise God during this. No I am not praising God for giving a friend cancer, I'm a sick and twisted lizard but not that sick. No, I thought of a reason to praise God despite my friend being sick. After a while I decided to take these jumbled thoughts and turn them into a journal.
Praising God anytime you or a friend is going through trouble's is unbelievably hard. Yet it's expected of us (hell in Romans 5: 2-5 its not just expected, its a good thing that can help us grow in our faith). So all I can do is pray for my friend and write this journal.
What is the greatest desire God placed in humanity? The desire to know Him? Well yes obviously but go deeper in that. Why do we want to know God? Why do we want to know about the world we're inhabiting? Why do we care to look up why the sky is blue or why tokay gecko's have no eyelids?
They all are part of the same desire, in my opinion the greatest desire God put in humanity. The desire to know. We as a species are driven by this, to seek out problems and try to understand them. We hunger for knowledge of the world around us and of our own bodies.
This also applies to our relationship with God. Blessed Columba Marmion made a point in Christ in His Mysteries, we seek out knowledge of God. Because God makes Himself available to us, we seek to know Him better. This drive motivates us and motivates how we grow spiritually.
This desire also motivates us to grow as a species. We don't just want to know because we're curious, though that is how it begins. We want to know as I mentioned because we seek out problems, we want to fix those problems. We seek out alternate fuel supplies to fix the problems of limited fossil fuels, we are trying to find cures for cancer because cancer is killing a lot of people.
I have a reason to praise God then despite my friend being sick. Because not to long ago, one hundred years or so, this would have been a death sentence. Things we take for granted, like the importance of killing germs through sanatizing or medications that help keep us healthy, only exist because of this desire.
Why do I consider this the greatest desire God put in us though? Because for me at least, this is more proof that God loves us than anything else. He doesn't want us to stagnate as a species. He wants us to improve our lives and gives us the means to do so. Knowledge is out there, we know it is and all we have to do is seek it out.
I am terribly sad Matthias has cancer and I will pray for him. But I can still be happy because he'll be alright. God has given us the desire to know how to fix this problem and thus Matthias will be okay. Life changed yes but still alive. That is a bargain to me.
matthiasrat has thyroid cancer and my first reaction was...wow. A friend of mine is sick. Even with something easily treated (as far as cancer goes) that was...wow. You're never ready for something heavy happening to a friend, it just...yeah.But something else happened while I was reading Matthias' journal, something very odd. I thought of a reason to praise God during this. No I am not praising God for giving a friend cancer, I'm a sick and twisted lizard but not that sick. No, I thought of a reason to praise God despite my friend being sick. After a while I decided to take these jumbled thoughts and turn them into a journal.
Praising God anytime you or a friend is going through trouble's is unbelievably hard. Yet it's expected of us (hell in Romans 5: 2-5 its not just expected, its a good thing that can help us grow in our faith). So all I can do is pray for my friend and write this journal.
What is the greatest desire God placed in humanity? The desire to know Him? Well yes obviously but go deeper in that. Why do we want to know God? Why do we want to know about the world we're inhabiting? Why do we care to look up why the sky is blue or why tokay gecko's have no eyelids?
They all are part of the same desire, in my opinion the greatest desire God put in humanity. The desire to know. We as a species are driven by this, to seek out problems and try to understand them. We hunger for knowledge of the world around us and of our own bodies.
This also applies to our relationship with God. Blessed Columba Marmion made a point in Christ in His Mysteries, we seek out knowledge of God. Because God makes Himself available to us, we seek to know Him better. This drive motivates us and motivates how we grow spiritually.
This desire also motivates us to grow as a species. We don't just want to know because we're curious, though that is how it begins. We want to know as I mentioned because we seek out problems, we want to fix those problems. We seek out alternate fuel supplies to fix the problems of limited fossil fuels, we are trying to find cures for cancer because cancer is killing a lot of people.
I have a reason to praise God then despite my friend being sick. Because not to long ago, one hundred years or so, this would have been a death sentence. Things we take for granted, like the importance of killing germs through sanatizing or medications that help keep us healthy, only exist because of this desire.
Why do I consider this the greatest desire God put in us though? Because for me at least, this is more proof that God loves us than anything else. He doesn't want us to stagnate as a species. He wants us to improve our lives and gives us the means to do so. Knowledge is out there, we know it is and all we have to do is seek it out.
I am terribly sad Matthias has cancer and I will pray for him. But I can still be happy because he'll be alright. God has given us the desire to know how to fix this problem and thus Matthias will be okay. Life changed yes but still alive. That is a bargain to me.
Dominus teucm