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If you are going through a particularly difficult season in your life, take some time and read about the incredible trials one ACC staff member has endured. It may just change your approach to how you deal with the difficulties in your own life. Dave Hubert, our Minister of Involvement, has created a website that will allow you to better understand not only how he survived cancer the last two years but also how he came through it thankful to God for having had it. "I created this website with the hope that something I put in it, will bless your life and help you along in your life's journey," he says. " I pray that it might help someone else to see what I went through and how I coped with my trial in all honesty but also in faith." By publishing two dozen deeply personal e-mails he wrote to his support network of family and friends during his journey with cancer, Dave reveals both his unique sense of humor and his incredible faith despite dire pain and multiple brushes with death. Below are a couple of samples from his first letter that begin to reveal why he came to sign his emails as "Dave Hubert, Cancer Conqueror." Dave describes the incredible events during his near-death experience on the operating table: "At that time it felt to me like I had the choice to live or die and I wanted to die. I had that peace that passes understanding and either way was ok. In that moment one of the nurses patted my face and looked very empathetically at me and simply said, “Just stay with us.” I recognized her face and tried to tell her that and to ask who she was but the oxygen mask blocked me and I was totally dry in my mouth and throat. I looked for her name on her lab coat but I could not see it. I thought of Belinda and my vow to remain faithful until death. I was still alive so I determined to live if I could. I got better and they took me to ICU … I wanted to thank the nurse who helped me in that desperate moment and I asked everyone who had been in the room who she was. The doctor, chaplain, and nurses all said that nobody was standing where I said she was and nobody knew the person I described. Make of it whatever you want, but I think I know who my guardian angel is now." Dave prepares for yet another extremely risky surgery: It feels like God did this just so He could prove to me how much He cares and how much He can and will do for me. I know there are no promises for the outcome but then again, I have a sure promise of the ultimate outcome of it all. And that is the only one that counts. Continue reading at Dave's website Want more? Just wait for the Small Group. While on this journey, Dave gained great strength and guidance from God's Word. There was also a book by Larry Crabb called "Shattered Dreams" that he re-read during this time that helped him greatly. Dave will be facilitating a small group this fall based upon this book. If you wonder where in the world God is when you face major trials and He is seemingly silent and uninvolved, this group will be for you. Stay tuned for fall signups. |
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