Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—1 Thessalonians 5:12-22
by: Leanne Lippincott.
God tells us to give thanks for the bad as well as the good. When I learned that I had cancer, thanking God was the furthest thing from my mind. But as I struggled through nine months of treatments, a strange thing happened: I did begin to thank God—for His comforting presence, for Christian friends, for help with medical bills, and for hundreds of cards and prayers. Through that ordeal, I grew closer to God. I never would have chosen to get cancer, but it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.