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    When the Healing Doesn’t Come
    When the Healing Doesn’t Come
    When the Healing Doesn’t Come
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    When the Healing Doesn’t Come

    By Lori Hendrix

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    When cancer comes into the lives of our loved ones, we pray for a miracle, for physical healing —but it doesn’t always happen.

    When the Healing Doesn’t Come tells the true story of how cancer changed one woman’s life forever. Over time, Lori Hendrix watched as four members of her family and a dear friend succumbed to cancer. Although cancer brought heartache into Lori Hendrix’s life, it also brought her spiritual healing. At the time that her loved ones were sick, she did not understand God’s plan, but his grace gave her the strength to endure her journey. In the face of so much personal loss from cancer, she tells us how she found salvation and forgiveness from God. He comforted her grief and helped her to find purpose in her quest to find a cure for cancer.

    She explains how you can find peace and comfort when recovery does not come and loved ones don’t survive cancer. God healed her anger, comforted her grief, and set her on a path that would lead to salvation and forgiveness.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu Publishing Services
    Release dateApr 23, 2014
    ISBN9781483411293
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      When the Healing Doesn’t Come - Lori Hendrix

      story.

      Copyright © 2014 Lori Hendrix.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means—whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of both publisher and author, except in the case of brief excerpts used in critical articles and reviews. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law.

      ISBN: 978-1-4834-1130-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4834-1129-3 (e)

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014905529

      Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 4/25/2014

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Chapter 1 A Higher Purpose

      Chapter 2 Glenda Fay (1937–1974)

      Chapter 3 A Sad Morning

      Chapter 4 After the Tears

      Chapter 5 Youth Ranch

      Chapter 6 Abandoned

      Chapter 7 Forgiveness

      Chapter 8 A Wrong Turn

      Chapter 9 The Power of Christian Music

      Chapter 10 Donna Marie (1951–2005)

      Chapter 11 Beverly Sue (1956–2012)

      Chapter 12 Dorothy Jeanette (1939–2012)

      Chapter 13 Vivian (1959–2013)

      Chapter 14 The Journey Continues

      Dedicated to all who grieve; may your grief lead you to a higher purpose for his glory.

      To my family who endured this story

      To my wonderful husband, David who encouraged me during this project. Thank you for helping me through those early years of guilt. Thank you for your love and devotion these past 25 years.

      PREFACE

      Cancer

      Cancer is a word that brings about such emotion. Just the mention of the word stirs up anxiety and fear. For many, it is a word associated with hopelessness and death. For others, it is a reminder of their loss.

      Can you imagine being thankful that cancer came into your life? Being thankful for cancer probably seems the most idiotic thing a person can be. Why in the world would a person be thankful for such a terrible disease that causes such heartache and sorrow? I suppose being thankful for what it brought about in my life is a more accurate statement. Cancer played such an important role in my life that I feel a need to share my journey. Although cancer brought heartache, it also brought about a spiritual healing. At the time I did not understand God’s plan, but his grace gave me the strength to endure the journey I was about to begin. Although the journey would be hard, and almost unbearable at times, it would also be one of salvation and forgiveness.

      It is my hope that this book gives a glimpse into how one can find peace and comfort in the death of a loved one from cancer. It is especially difficult to trust God when the healing doesn’t come. We question his reasons. We blame him and turn away. But God always has a reason. God yearns for us to run to him in our sorrow. Sitting here writing my own account, I am reminded of how God reached down and not only comforted me with the peace that surpasses all understanding, but he molded this lump of clay into something for his purpose.

      CHAPTER 1

      A Higher Purpose

      It is hard to find a life that has not been touched in some way from cancer. Whether it is parents, other family members, or dear friends, it always seems to creep into the lives of everyone. It has been discovered that there are genes linked to cancers that run in families, such as cancers of the colon, rectum, kidney, ovary, thyroid, pancreas, and skin. Familial cancer is not nearly as common as spontaneous cancer (cancer that is caused by DNA damage that starts during a person’s lifetime). Cancer linked to heredity is less than 15 percent of all cancers (1).

      Spontaneous cancer is the type of cancer that took from me five people whom I dearly loved. My mother, two of her sisters, my cousin, and a cherished friend all contracted very different cancers and never saw the healing they prayed and hoped would come.

      Even though medicine progressed and flourished in many cultures and civilizations, there was little progress in cancer treatment. The approach to cancer was doom and gloom, and to some extent, the belief that cancer cannot be cured has persisted even into the twenty-first century. This has served to fuel the fear people have of the disease. Some people consider all cancers incurable and put off seeing a doctor until it is too late for optimal treatment (2). The cliché An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is so very true. Please don’t wait until symptoms begin to tell you something is wrong. Go and get the screenings that can help you before it’s too late. I wish my family had done so; however, they waited and ignored symptoms until it was too late.

      But what about those who do take care of their bodies and get cancer anyway? There are countless people who still get cancer even though they eat the right foods, exercise, and get all the screenings. Then there are innocent children who get cancer and suffer. People get cancer when something in the nucleus of a cell causes the cell to divide rapidly at an abnormal rate, leading to uncontrolled growth (3).

      Sometimes, a person is born with one of these mutations already. This doesn’t mean they will definitely get cancer, but with one mutation from the start, it makes it more likely statistically that they will develop cancer during their lifetime. Doctors call this genetic predisposition (4).

      I have heard so many people ask why God doesn’t do something. How can he allow such things to happen? Why doesn’t he just stomp out this disease and be done with it? The answer is he could! But could it be that in his divine wisdom there is a greater plan and higher purpose? Are there other people like me who would not have come to the Father any other way except through tragedy?

      Why would God use tragedy? Perhaps for the same reason that people call out to God when there is tragedy in their lives and ignore him when life is good. God loves us so much that he longs for us to come to him willingly, but I believe that he will do whatever it takes to get our attention. Sometimes, we are so stubborn and blind with self-love, arrogance, and desire for a world that can never satisfy us that he allows things to happen for our own good. Perhaps that is why he has not come back yet; he is waiting for that one lost soul to reach out to him in for forgiveness and for salvation. What mercy and grace our God shows us.

      I hate sickness, especially cancer, hunger, homelessness, and all the ailments that grip the world today. But know this: God hates these things even more. The Lord God loved us so much that he allowed his own Son to be beaten, mocked, spit upon, and killed. How could a loving God allow such a thing to happen to his beloved Son? There is only one answer: there is a higher purpose, which is the salvation of the world.

      This world is not the same world our heavenly Father created for us. That world did not have disease, hunger, homelessness, or cancer. However, because of sin and the one who came to destroy, the world has those things and even more horrific evils. This world belongs to the one called deceiver, liar, and pestilence. It was he who was on hand to bring temptation to bear upon our first parents bringing about destruction and the downfall of mankind. It is he who brought disease and death when he fell to the earth.

      It was not until after I married that I finally accepted the fact that life is not fair. I was disillusioned and found it very hard to accept events that seemed so unjust. My husband, David, helped me to realize the cold hard truth that life is not fair! In fact, bad things happen to good people, and good things happen to bad people.

      As Matthew 5:45 (NIV) says, "He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain

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