{"id":386,"date":"2007-04-19T22:33:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T03:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=386"},"modified":"2007-04-19T22:33:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T03:33:49","slug":"Expect Miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Expect Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people I know are battling cancer.&nbsp; One of them is a very, very dear friend from California.&nbsp; She&#8217;s been an amazing testimony to God&#8217;s presence through it all, and I have been meaning to share an article that she wrote for Radiant Magazine, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiantmag.com\/article.php?id=209\" target=\"_blank\">The Blessing of Cancer<\/a>.&nbsp; It&#8217;s such a great communication of what she&#8217;s gone through.&nbsp; She&#8217;s doing great, and finished chemotherapy last month.&nbsp; Go, Michelle!&nbsp; We&#8217;re praying for you&#8230; and may God continue to use you in a MIGHTY way to minister to those around you.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The other person, Amy Alford, I only know secondhand, as she&#8217;s the daughter of a woman from my home church in Shell Lake.&nbsp; Long story short is that just a couple weeks after giving birth to a sweet baby girl in December, she was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor.&nbsp; She&#8217;s undergone surgery, but part of the tumor couldn&#8217;t be removed, and now she&#8217;s in the process of an aggressive chemotherapy protocol.&nbsp; Her story can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caringbridge.org\/visit\/amyalford\" target=\"_blank\">here, at Caring Bridge<\/a>.&nbsp; But if you&#8217;re interested in a little, tangible way you can support her, there are beautiful silver bracelets available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mychristianmarket.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.MyChristianMarket.com<\/a> that say &quot;Expect Miracles&quot;.&nbsp; They&#8217;re only $9.95, and 100% of the profits go to a fun to support their expenses.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Expect Miracles&quot;&#8230; I think that&#8217;s so powerful because we so rarely do.&nbsp; God IS capable, and he WANTS to show us His power.&nbsp; He wants us to believe Him.&nbsp; I think we need to pray for miracles, expecting them, and believing God is able.&nbsp; And above all, we believe that He is good, and trust that He is loving.&nbsp; I learned so much from a Beth Moore bible study, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeway.com\/believinggod\/\" target=\"_blank\">Believing God<\/a>.&nbsp; It&#8217;s hard, but I want to find ways to believe in Him and His character in my life.&nbsp; And I&#8217;m expecting miracles.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people I know are battling cancer.&nbsp; One of them is a very, very dear friend from California.&nbsp; She&#8217;s been an amazing testimony to God&#8217;s presence through it all, and I have been meaning to share an article that she wrote for Radiant Magazine, called The Blessing of Cancer.&nbsp; It&#8217;s such a great communication of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-6e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}