My Cancer. God's Grace. His Glory.Sýnishorn

God’s PROTECTION was one of the most striking aspects of His grace to me. As I stood in the dressing room, I remembered the mammogram I had a year earlier. The results were clear. The doctor said, "Everything looks good! You have done so well that you won't need another mammogram for two years." My next mammogram was actually scheduled for August 2021—3 years later.

However, the Lord knew that it wasn’t clear and revealed what was hidden. What technology and doctors hadn't seen, God revealed. And He revealed it in His perfect time. He knew the cancer was there last year, the year before, and the year before that. In fact, He knew the very moment the first cancer cell formed in my body. And yet in His love and according to His sovereign plan, He revealed the cancer to me that day.

His PROVIDENCE—this was His divine, glorious orchestration of events—His symphony for His glory. The Heidelberg Catechism phrases it this way: "God's providence is his almighty and ever-present power, whereby, as with His hand, He still upholds heaven and earth and all creatures, and so governs them that leaf and blade, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, food and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, indeed, all things, come to us not by chance but by His fatherly hand."

So, I left the dressing room, purchased what I needed, met Kevin and we headed to Hannah's wedding. The ceremony was a beautiful testimony of God’s mercy and grace—a powerful and visual proclamation of the gospel.

When we returned to Louisville I went online and described my symptoms in my chart and requested an annual exam. Within one hour, I had a phone call. The next day I received a diagnostic mammogram and ultrasound. The biopsy was scheduled for a few days later.