Domestic News - Tammy Faye Messner and Cancer
I talked about Tammy Faye Messner (formerly Tammy Faye Bakker) a while ago, and mentioned her again recently. Now she is back in the news:
Former televangelist Tammy Faye Messner said Wednesday that cancer has returned to her lungs, marking her third battle with the illness.
Messner was first diagnosed with colon cancer nearly a decade ago and last year announced that the disease has spread to her lungs. It has since reappeared in her lungs, she said....
The Charlotte resident was just preparing for the premiere of a television documentary on her experience in beating cancer in 2004 when she found out that colon cancer had returned for a second time to one of her lungs.
The documentary titled "Tammy Faye: Death Defying," on Women's Entertainment channel July 25, was a way for her to help others going through the same troubles....
"I thank God, I'm truly one of the lucky ones," Messner said. "There's always people that are worse off than you are, and that's what I look at to give me strength."...
Before this announcement was made, Tammy Faye discussed "Death Defying" on her website:
...Many people ask me WHY did you allow cameras to film you going through the treatment of cancer? I think that for too long we have kept the treatment of cancer and other diseases a mystery. I feel that knowledge is power and we need to know all we can when someone we love, or we ourselves find treatment for cancer etc. is needed. It helps to take the fear out of the process. If you can actually SEE someone else going through it, talking about it and living it day by day I think that helps all of us to better understand. I hope it will give all those who see it courage to fight and determination to win the battle.
The film is called “TAMMY FAYE, DEATH DEFYING”. It will be shown on WE TV Network on July 25th....
My girlfriend, Deborah Keener sent me this from her daily devotional reading. I want to share it with you as it really encouraged me.
“We never have to worry about beating God to a situation in our lives. We will never be the first one to arrive on the scene. We will never have to dial a Heavenly 911 to inform God about what has happened. We don’t ever have to wait for Him to show up and bring help. HE IS ALWAYS AHEAD OF US…….HE ALWAYS GOES BEFORE US….HE ALWAYS PREPARES THE WAY.”
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