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Forgiveness: the Power to Overcome

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have an instant formula that would

turn all your problems, hurts and fears into a

happily-ever-after outcome?

There are lotions and potions, medical diagnoses and hundreds of

articles and books written on feeling good and being happy. Yet,

too many of us are feeling loaded down, bent over and depressed

due to life's heavy demands on us. Thoughts keep screaming at us

how we have been maltreated, snubbed and gotten a bad rap! How

can you be happy with all this hanging over your head? After

all, it's true!

Just today I called a friend to see how she was doing after a

long ordeal with doctors, hospital mistakes and lots pf pain.

You see, Marlene had not one, or two, but three brain aneurysms.

Soon after the procedure for the first one she was sent home

with much pain and discomfort. To make a very long story short,

her doctor refused to check into the cause of the persistent

pain, instead telling her that "it was all in her head" and that

she would have to live with it.

It was only after much research and sheer determination that

Marlene found a team of doctors in another local hospital who

had pioneered an alternate, less invasive procedure to "loop"

the other two aneurysms. They agreed to work on her, and in the

process it was discovered that she had contracted the dreaded

"hospital infection" which had progressed to such a degree that

by then it was too late to merely treat it with drugs. The whole

left side of her cranium had to be removed and the membrane

carefully rolled up inside in order to carefully remove it.

Subsequently the cranium was supported for months from within by

"spanners" to keep it from caving in, and eventually balloons

were inserted weekly for another six months or so to expand the

shrunken ligaments in preparation for the reconstruction of the

left side of the head.

Marlene was not a happy camper! During her ordeal her husband

had left her, she was in constant pain, and depression plagued

her constantly. Just as the end seemed to be in sight and a date

was to be finalized for the plastic surgery, it was discovered

that once again the same infection had recurred. Furthermore,

she now had an inoperable brain tumor! M.R.I. or brainscans were

impossible because of the metal loops and spanners inside the

head!

Five more months of terror and exhaustion later, the doctor in

question finally acknowledged that the "tumor" was actually an

object carelessly left behind by them during one of their

procedures. Marlene was suddenly bombarded with advice from

family, friends and strangers to sue the hospitals in question

and/or the doctors. After all, she had rights and deserved

proper compensation for all her distress that now spanned over

three years! In her bitterness she had been contemplating it for

a while.

During her ordeal Marlene had started looking into the Word of

God, reading it, believing it and ... relying on it. She had

come to realize that the more she thought about the negatives

the more depressed she felt. She did not want to sue, primarily

as she did not want to prolong the agony of having to endure all

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the bitter mental anguish again and again during a trial. Today

she declared to me jubulantly that for the first time in this

long battle she was now able to laugh. I can laugh again, she

reported excitedly, because I made a decision in my heart to

forgive everyone for their mistakes. The minute she had made

that decision, it felt as if a five-hundred-pound weight had

been lifted off her back. She was not the same person I had been

trying to encourage for a long time. It was not the old Marlene

that had come back. No, this was a Marlene who was totally

empowered in the knowledge that forgiveness, according to the

Word of God, has indeed set her free! This was a gal who can now

laugh at her ordeal and truthfully say that without it she would

not have got the Wisdom, faith and power through that faith to

overcome.

Marlene is now living one precious day at a time, looking only

at the wonderful and good things in her life, being thankful for

them, and trusting God to lead her further. She is not out of

her danger zone yet. She still has to undergo the operation to

remove the "debris" in her head and then still the

reconstruction of her skull. But now she is in total peace,

trusting, hopeful and convicted - not by mere human intellect -

that she is an overcomer.

About the author:

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and encourage others to stand strong spiritually, emotionally

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