Good morning fight club. It’s another great day to fight.
Quick update on my treatment plans. I have made an important healthcare change of provider after receiving a third opinion. On the counsel of my new physician I will undergo 4-6 months chemotherapy treatment first prior to surgery. I have an appointment next week to meet my new medical oncologist.
We are very comfortable with the new medical team. They are the best in this field and we are confident in their assessment and plan. The prognosis remains excellent. The new medical team still strongly believes that my cancer can be cured.
With that being said today’s prayer focus is joy. Years ago a good friend and former hospice patient gave me a book of Puritan Prayers. It was been a wonderful resource for me over the years. Today’s prayer comes from a book of prayers.
Prayer of Joy
Valley of Vision: Puritan Prayers and Devotions
O Christ,
All thy ways of mercy tend to and end in my delight.
Thou didst weep, sorrow, suffer that I might rejoice. For my joy thou hast sent the Comforter, multiplied thy promises,
shown me my future happiness, given me a living fountain.
Thou art preparing joy for me and me for joy; I pray for joy, wait for joy, long for joy;
give me more than I can hold, desire, or think of.
Measure out to me my times and degrees of joy at my work, business, duties.
If I weep at night, give me joy in the morning. Let me rest in the thought of thy love, pardon for sin, my title to heaven, my future unspotted state.
I am an unworthy recipient of thy grace.
I often disesteem thy blood and slight thy love, but can in repentance draw water from wells of thy joyous forgiveness.
Let my heart leap towards the eternal sabbath, where the work of redemption, sanctification, preservation, glorification is finished and perfected for ever, where thou wilt rejoice over me with joy.
There is no joy like the joy of heaven, for in that state are no sad divisions, unchristian quarrels, contentions, evil designs, weariness, hunger, cold, sadness, sin, suffering, persecutions, tools of duty.
O healthful place where none are sick!
O happy land where all are kings!
O holy assembly where all are priests!
How free a state where none are servants except to thee!
Bring me speedily to the land of joy.
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