What is it about getting cancer or some other potentially fatal illness that causes us to invest more in our faith?
Is it fear of death? Or a primal desire to believe in something greater than ourselves?
Cancer, over 10 years ago, gave me permission to try something different, to explore the possibilities that this life has to offer. In the faith department, the seed of my change was to see cancer as my gift. Then I took the steps to build it as such.
If cancer was my gift, my healing would show me my faith. I took up yoga, took steps to make healthy boundaries with the people around me, started breathing with David Elliott, took steps to improve my view of myself, and began the arduous task of not trying to do everything and asking others for help.
All of these elements can be found in the tiny seed of my faith. I wanted to believe in something greater than myself but I wanted empirical evidence of God. Yet I believed in anger, jealousy, anxiety, and a myriad of other unhealthy emotions that get stuck in the body and cause stasis and illness - I can't see them either.
It all started with changing my perspective. With seeing a gift where there was once only illness.
I'm so glad that you are realizing your gifts (plural for there are many)! Thanks for continuing to share you faith story here and inspire me and others! Love and light, Jill
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