Well, you know God can heal anything

There a lot of good Christen men and women in my life. I am thankful for them. Several different pastors have sat with Susan during the four major surgery's I have had in the last 10 years. I met parents of former students who tell me they are still praying for me. I have met total strangers in line at Wal-mart who have said "are you Mr. Atwell? Our church is praying for you!" My family at River Community Fellowship is always asking me how I am doing and praying for me. And of course all of my friends that pray for me. I am blessed

I am a Christian. Born again, washed in the blood. I regularly pray that my body is healed of cancer. I truly believe that God will heal me. It will either be here on earth or in heaven.

I hope and pray it is here on earth. But God's will be done.

Some of my Christian brethren I met on the street stop and ask me "what is the latest from the doctor?" Now here is what the good doc usually tells me. "Mr Atwell you still have numerous nodules in both lungs. The cancer has not spread and the radiation was well taken up in the last treatment. Because of the extensive nerve damage you will remain in pain. You remain at high risk for death". Yikes. So I tell people the doctors tell me they cannot cure me but can keep me alive for awhile. Then starts the: well now remember, doctors don't know the power of God, Doctors don't know everything, you tell them God is in control and the like.

I have learned to take their comments in stride . They mean well. I do really believe if it is God's will I will be healed on earth. When I go to the cancer docs I always expect to hear " Mr. Atwell we can not find any evidence of cancer". Eights months after the first radiation treatment I was devastated when I still had cancer in my lungs. After the next radiation treatment cells "lit up in my Lungs and for the first time in my bladder, salivary glands and urinary tract and some place else I cannot remember. So my point to all of this today is I have to live in the now. Telling people what the doctors tell me is not being unfaithful. It is being realistic. If the LORD heals me here I plan to go where ever people want to hear my story of God's healing. If He heals me in heaven that is all good also. Praise the LORD! Glory to God

Tomorrow I answer the question: So do you have to decide everyday to get up off the couch and do something?