Refining Fire

There is a praise song that has the words:
"Purify my heart
Let me be as gold and precious silver
Refiner's fire
My heart's one desire
Is to be holy
Set apart for You, Lord"
by - Brian Doerksen, 2008
This song was a favorite of mine but I never really knew the full meaning of the words.  God has been teaching me in the last 7 years in ways I would not have imagined.

Many of you are wondering how John and I are doing after just 7 short months of marriage and finding out John has lung and bone cancer.  Well very, very sad first of all and totally incapable of walking this journey alone without God holding us up.  Thank you so very much to the many who have said you are praying for us!  We need it!!  God has answered in the way that each day He gives us hope and holds our hands and helps us move forward.

John has taken all the needed tests, but the bone marrow test taken in the doctor's office wasn't good enough, so they want another one to give the final prognosis for treatment.  So now we wait once again for the hospital to schedule him with the radiology department.  We were told this could take another week to week and half.  Yes, this woman is continuing to try to speed this process any way I can.  All his other tests have been sent to the hospital so please pray that they will do the test this week!  It's my understanding that once the test is taken they still have to wait a day or so for it to process in the lab.

We are very hopeful that there is treatment for his cancer that can make it go into remission or give him some more days with me.  There is always hope as well for a miracle!  We never doubt what God can do.  We also have said not my will but Yours be done.

"These have come so that your faith - of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire - may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed." I Peter 1:7