thanking God for answered prayers

I wanted to end this section of the blog updates with a Prayer of Thanksgiving to God for answering our prayers. If you read my earlier blog, last Friday Dr. Robinson said that with this past surgery, Dr. Sarker (surgeon) was able to remove all the cancer, both in the tissue and in the lymph nodes.  Whew.. did you hear our sigh of relief? did you see our smiles that we couldn't hide?  We are so grateful to God for hearing our prayers and your prayers as well. We know so many of you, in the hundreds, have been praying on my behalf, for our sakes.  And we are thankful to you for your prayers and humbled by God's answer to our prayers....

and yet there's a part of me that hesitated to write about our good news.. because we have a couple of friends who we have been praying for in the past several years, who are still battling with cancer. And I struggled in my mind to find answers... and I wanted to be sensitive to them as well, because I know that we are all praying for the same thing.. healing and removal of cancer.  I don't know why God allows some prayers to be answered in a shorter amount of time, in the way we had hoped it to be answered, and why for some, we are still hoping and praying for the results we want.  Please do not think that I'm not thankful that I received such great news... I just wanted to be sensitive to our other friends who until today, we are still asking God to intervene and remove their cancer as well.... we will continue to pray for them for however long it takes...

and we continue to wait for further instructions to determine what our next treatment plan will be. so, our prayers continue and we hope that we will be able to decide what is best to do when we need to make the decision in the next couple of weeks or so.   Woo-hoo!!! Yeay!! Shout to the Lord!!