Winning the Battle by Stephanie Perry Moore

Author:Stephanie Perry Moore [Moore, Stephanie Perry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8024-7870-2
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2012-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Feel Better

5

I couldn’t stop the tears from flowing. It was so upsetting to hear the news that my grandmother had cancer. I didn’t know where cancer came from or how people got it, but I knew it was nothing to play with. Why Grandma? It just didn’t seem right.

When we got inside the house, I fell into my Grandma’s arms again.

“You’ve gotta be okay, Grandma. I can’t lose you,” I said softly.

My father just left out of the room. He was all choked up. Antoine opened up the front door and ran down the street. He didn’t want to let anybody see him cry. I wanted to be tough, but I couldn’t hold in my sadness either.

Grandma said, “Oh, Alec, honey, I’m gon’ be okay.”

“How are you gonna be okay if you have cancer? I don’t understand. This isn’t good. What’s gonna happen?”

“Well, they’re gonna give me a treatment plan, and we’re gonna see how it works out. It’s not over ’til it’s over, baby. And if I have one more day on this Earth or many, many, more, I’m gon’ live my time with a happy heart. So if I see tears, they better be tears of joy and not sorrow,” she said, wiping my eyes.

Grandma was trying to pull back so she could look down at my face, but I didn’t want to let her go. I didn’t want to hurt her by squeezing her too tight either, not being sure if she was in any pain.

She was my grandmother, and she’d become so important to me. She’d been here for Dad, Antoine, and me almost every day since last year. Imagining a world without her in it wasn’t a thought I could be happy about. So as Grandma tried to pull apart from me, I felt as if I was really losing her. I thought about her being gone, and it made me cry louder and harder, until I almost couldn’t breathe.

When Dad heard me, he rushed back into the room. “Son, are you okay? Are you okay?” he kept asking me.

“No! I’m not okay!” I said back.

“Now, my men have gotta relax,” Grandma said, as she sat down in a chair.

Just then, we heard the front door close.

“Antoine, come on in here,” Grandma called out, as Dad rubbed my back.

“Dad, this is hard. I feel sick myself,” I whispered, unable to get ahold of my bad thoughts.

All three of us stood in front of her. Like a drill sergeant, Grandma told us, “Listen up, and I’m only gon’ tell y’all this one time. I didn’t get the news I wanted today, but I’m a child of the King, and He knows what’s best. We all love Him, and we trust Him. Who knows, but Jesus, what tomorrow holds. We didn’t come to this world to stay forever. Andre, son, you know that. And boys, I know you’re young, but I’ll tell you one thing—when we leave this world we’re going to be with the Lord. So I’ll be all right with whatever happens next.

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