The Qualified
What do you say to a woman who just found out she has terminal cancer? How do you respond when this woman is a complete stranger? How to you encourage when she begins opening up to you about her currently reality and the trauma from her past that has caused her to drift from God. This past Collide event I had a divine encounter on a carpet-worn step. I noticed something in her face that bespoke her burden. I sat down. She told me a fraction of her story but the Spirit within me revealed that she was carrying much more. I knew she had fear and needed answers. Was she going to be okay? Inside I started to panic a bit—for how do you proclaim to a hurting woman that God is still good when He allows that impending diagnosis over your life? Especially when your own cancer story was early detection, outpatient surgery, and regular dermatology checks to make sure it hasn’t returned? ...