Glory's Diary Page 1

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Glory's Diary,

Diary started after she diagnosis she had Leukemia AML in 2005.

In First page she wrote down only a few words:

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An Easter Card with a letter from her friend Reba to Glory

She wrote on her first page dairy:

3/15/05

Dearest Glory,

How are you? I hope you are well – mentally, emotionally, spiritually, & physically! We’ve been talking about the concept of SHALOM recently at CCFC …..the concept of wholeness…… completeness….peace, & how that’s what God’s kingdom is all about. Of course, healing is a part of God’s plan for SHALOM.

I was so sad to hear that you had to go home because you were sick, but we’ve been praying for you since the moment we first heard, at dairy prayer, IV weekly prayer, at the fung retreat, at CCFC’s Z Sunday service, & I am 100% positive that many of us are praying for your healing individually as well. God has especially put it on my heart to pray that you’d be able to return to Wellesley next semester, & that you’d be able to experience the joyful/ exciting stress of looking for a JUL. that I’m experiencing right now! The more I pray, the more I’m filled with hope that God well heal you.

I cannot help but regret not knowing why you had crutches, or that you’d defeated cancer once before. I was always afraid to ask…..had I know, perhaps I could have been praying for your health all this time. However, I am so thankful that I’ve shared numerous car rides & meals with you. I understand, at least in part, who you are, & that helps me to pray for you how. Cancer hoes not define you. Your bright smile, your passion for ping pong & chess & you classes, -- all of these describe you, & I rejoice when I pray for you.

I know from personal experience of praying for healing from diabetes that it’s sometimes really hard to have faith. So I just wanted to remind you & encourage you through this section of Philip Yancey’s where is God When It Hurts? (one of my favorite books)

“As Covnelias Plantinga Jr., has said, I’ve do not refer each other to the cross of Christ to we will at last understand concer. We rather lift our eyes to the cross, whence comes our help, in order to see that God shares our lot & can therefore be trust” in the ultimate alchemy of all history, God took the worst thing that could possible happen – the appalling execution of His innocent Son -- & turned it into the final history over evil & death. It was an act of unprecedented cunning, turning the design of evil into the service of good, an act that holds within it a promise for all of us. The unimaginable suffering of the cross was fully redeemed: it is by His wounds that we are healed (Isaiah 53:5), by His weakness we are made strong.”

Praying for you !

With love,

Reba