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My Christian Faith Research Paper

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Everyone has their time in life when God tests the strength of their faith. These tests can cause you to break down, and they can torture you mentally. Most of the time, these tests are really big. For example, if someone you love gets sick and you want to help, but there is nothing that you can do. This is what happened to me, and it came to me through my mom suffering from a large brain tumor. Through my mother’s hardship and my reliance on my Christian faith, I learned important lessons such as, self control, putting all faith in God, and the importance of loving others for who they are. I learned a very influential lesson about self control during this. In May 2016, my mom was diagnosed with a large meningioma covering most of the left side of her brain. The tumor had been growing there for 7 to 10 years, they said it was most likely caused by the pills she took to help have me. This hit me hard, because it was so unexpected. I had so many questions that …show more content…

There were many complications during the surgery, my mom had a stroke during her first surgery and about 10 minutes later, after a 8 hour surgery to take out the tumor and put in a mesh plate to replace her skull, she went back in to take the plate out. After this, she went into ICU and she wasn’t doing very well. I was about to go utterly insane without talking to my mom, but I kept my faith. Finally, after about a month and a half of my mom being asleep, the doctor found a leak in her spinal cord that was restricting the brain to hold in fluid. The doctor fixed this with a simple blood patch and after this procedure, she started to wake up. Shortly after this, she moved to the rehabilitation unit and started the long process to becoming herself again. I realized that she wouldn’t have woken up or healed for that matter, if we didn’t have so many people on our side praying, we were truly in the hands of

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