Pastor, I look forward to reading your daily blog. I’m praying for you, I know how hard it is. I’m sure your learning patience. counting down the days, theirs always benefits in waiting. Keep trusting, believing. I was thinking of God and how much patience He has with people, waiting on that last one person to accept Christ. Just remember He’s making you a stronger person.

I’m not at all surprised that you are already crossing paths with others that need to hear about your experience with prostate cancer, even in these early stages of your healing. After going through the unplanned pregnancy with Tristan and later single motherhood, there were what seemed like constant connections with other young women in the same situation. There still are! But in the early days I would often say to God that I would really like to just forget about all that (it sometimes kept the pain fresh) and certainly after I was married would rather have just acted like that wasn’t a part of my past. But God’s plan, as it always is, is to turn our failures, trials, or whatever we go through, into triumphs over adversity that we use to minister to others. I feel connected to you now in this way! How cool to see that your victory here isn’t just so that Ralph Diehl can have personal vicotry over cancer, but God has a much bigger picture in mind, that you will have a unique ability to minister to men with cancer, or really anyone that is sent your way. God’s grace is amazing, what He sends us through is never in vain, unless we don’t live it out and obey. I know that you will obey Him in your calling, so you will be even more blessed! Praying you will get through these last days with the catheter, who knows, maybe you are stuck with it so you can talk on the phone with someone to share your story!!!