The biopsy came back.

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The biopsies came back. This is cancer. I had like 10 different questions for the doctor when they first told me, and one of them was, how do people even know if they have thyroid cancer? I only found out because my grandma had thyroid cancer, my mom had thyroid cancer, and my sister, who's 15 years younger than me, just recently found out she had thyroid cancer, which led me to think, "Hmm, should I get checked?" So, obviously, freaking out, asking all these questions, my mind immediately started to go to AI and see, "Hey, how do we get rid of it? Do we really have to take out the entire thyroid? Is it possibly in other parts of my body?" Which, by the way, the doctor did say that they're going to take a CT scan, and they did. They did that a couple of days ago. I'm waiting to hear back the results, but the CT scan tells you, "Did the cancer here happen to spread to other parts of your body, like your lungs, the heart, your lymph nodes, all these other things?" So, how are you supposed to know whether or not you have cancer? I don't know, but this doctor told me that, unfortunately, it's often through surprises. People get head trauma, or they find they track it because other family members also have it. So, here's where I landed. I found this scripture that gave me peace because I started to go all over the place trying to figure out, "What am I supposed to do next?" And the Bible says, "Look at the birds of the air." Which is funny cuz we're outside. "They do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can anyone of you, by worrying, add a single hour to your life?" And I've really been thinking about, yes, okay, I understand the Bible says we shouldn't worry, but really, how are we supposed to make progress if we don't start thinking about all the things that we're supposed to do next, how we got here? And I, you know, there are times where you can realize, "Oh, I'm actually spiraling on this thing, and this isn't actually helpful anymore. The fact that I'm up till 3:00 in the morning thinking about this is not actually going to make progress." And so, this scripture here in Matthew has helped me because when you go down to Matthew 6:33 it says, "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." For me, I was not seeking God first. I was seeking a way to get out of this, seeking answers. And scripture is telling us that when we go through hard things, when we go through things that we don't know how they're going to be accomplished, we are to seek God first. And so for us practically what that has looked like over the last 8 months before finding out that I had cancer has been waking up early in the morning and reading scripture, praying to God, and even when we don't know what to pray, just putting on worship music. Now, the point of all that is to create a rhythm where we can go to God first. Obviously, I didn't do so well by going to AI first, but here's the thing. God gives us grace. And in scripture, it teaches us how to walk in his ways. And so today, whatever we're facing, whatever pops up, let's try it together where we can seek God first, his kingdom and his righteousness. Trust with it because he cares for us. God bless you, friends.