This empty chair has meaning. It is the chair in the cancer treatment room.
Four years ago I became suddenly ill with Sepsis. Sepsis is a life threatening infection that kills 25-50% immediately and the long term (one year) survival rate after sepsis is 30% due to the great damage to the organs and body. I survived Sepsis but was incredibly weak for two months after. Six months after Sepsis (my second CT scan to look at the damage this left), I was diagnosed with Lymphoma, a blood cancer. Sepsis left an impact on my kidneys, my bladder, my gall bladder and left me with cancer.
I remember well the first walk down the hallway to the cancer center and subdued feelings of doom and death that lingered in those rooms.
I believe that God loves and works for our good in all things. I believe that through Christ who gives me strength, I am able to do all things. Since then, hanging on to those words, I climbed a mountain. I declared that God is able to do abundantly more than we can ask or imagine.
Now, I had a CT scan to look and see what God had done. In the words of the doctor, “everything is perfect!”
God is well able to preserve us and to heal us. Nothing is impossible with God.