Honey From the Rock

4 November 2025

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What a hope-filled journey it has been here at Hope4Cancer. Thank you for your prayers and support.

In the worship time last week, I noticed a common phase in the prayers: “Open our veins. Make it one and done.” Those words struck my heart in three different ways:

1. The nurses find a vein in each patient so the patient can receive the cancer-fighting therapies via IV. (IVs can be kept in for two days, so I’m poked three times a week.) Who wants to be poked multiples times? Thus, “Open our veins.”

   
   

2. The nurse assigned to me is fairly new in the field. She struggled to find a vein—not only for me, but for other patients too. She became discouraged and asked another nurse to complete the procedures for her. After I understood why people prayed, “Open our veins,” I knew I needed to walk in faith with that prayer. So, when it was time to be poked again, I asked the nurse assigned to me, “How are you to grow if you don’t practice?” Then I offered her my arm. You should have seen her face light up when she found a vein on the first try. “Open our veins” is a prayer for the nurses too, so they will not be discouraged.

   
   

3. Lastly, Brian whispered to me this morning an Old Testament verse (Leviticus 17:14), “The life of the flesh is in the blood,” and he noticed, “And the blood is in our veins.” When Christ's blood was shed, he overcame death—making it one and done (Colossians 1:15-19)—so we can have everlasting life (Hebrews 9:22). 

I’m still finding joy in my memorization of the list of names in Ezra 2. This week, the focus is on those who have charge of the temple itself—not just those who came out of exile and gave to the restoration of the temple. This motivated me not only to memorize the names in Ezra but also to know each person who is helping restore my body at Hope4Cancer:

         Priests (Ezra 2:36-39) equate to my doctors

         Levites (Ezra 2:40) to my nurses

         Singers (Ezra 2:41) to the worship leader

         Gatekeepers (Ezra 2:42) to those in Patient Services

         Servants (Ezra 2:43-54) to all my physical therapists

Only God knew that through my current experience, the book of Ezra would become so rich to me.

I hope each of you are fed from the finest of wheat and are given honey from the Rock.

Psalm 81:16

Written by Tammy Lea Fabian

Edited by Mia Atteberry