The latest in the life of a Buffaloe — My second MRI with contrast showed a labral tear in the hip bone area, the outside tendons on my hip are not doing well, and I have a softball-sized tumor in the upper inner thigh muscle. Because of those results, the first surgeon referred me to another surgeon who does soft-tissue surgery. Based on how big the tumor is and its location, the surgeon warned it could be cancerous, but he is hopeful it is only a lipoma (fatty, benign tissue). The surgeon will remove the tumor in the first week of May. If all goes well, I will be able to go home that evening, and the tumor will be sent to pathology for testing. If cancer is present, the surgeon will have to remove more tissue. We are praying the mass is benign.

On another note, my sweet hubby was bitten by a tick last week. Today, he was diagnosed with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and put on high-dose antibiotics.

F. B. Meyer wrote, “Our Lord is constantly taking us into the dark in order to tell us something. It may be the darkness of a home where bereavement has drawn the blinds, the darkness of a lonely and desolate life in which some illness has cut us off from the light and the activity of life, or the darkness of some crushing sorrow and disappointment. It is there He tells us His secrets—great and wonderful, eternal and infinite. He causes our eyes, blinded by the glare of things on earth, to behold the heavenly constellations. And our ears suddenly detect even the whisper of His voice, which has been so often drowned out by the turmoil of earth’s loud cries.”

The path ahead is unknown, and it’s easy to imagine various negative scenarios. Or, we can place the future in God’s loving hands and trust that He knows, He has a plan and a purpose, and in the dark, in the quiet, we will hear the whisper of His voice.

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.” ~ Isaiah 43:2, NASB

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