Seeking For Me

Speaking at the ladies' Christmas party at church, I shared some of my most memorable Christmases. Recalling the following one always stirs my emotions.

Two weeks before the Christmas of 1996 I was diagnosed with breast cancer. The pathology words "aggressive" and "metastatic" (bad cells rushing to attack organs) played in my head again and again as I practiced with the choir for the Christmas cantata.

During the program one of the songs overwhelmed me, and I couldn't sing it.

He was seeking for me

Jesus was seeking for me

Though I knew Him not

Yet He loved me

And was seeking for me . . . 

Knowing the hideous crucifixion awaiting Him, why did the Jewel of Heaven leave his Glory and come seeking for me? As I worshipped and praised God, blessings showered all over me, and I forgot about the cancer. God knew how I needed that.

Thank you, Lord, for saving my soul and for delivering me from cancer.

Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.