Emily Parker spoke with author Kate Nicholas about her healing from inoperable advanced breast cancer, the supernatural peace she was given and why she has written her new book Sea Changed.



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Finding Peace In The Storm And Receiving A Miraculous Healing

I spent my time studying what the Bible had to say about healing and I also sought Christian healing ministry as well. Sea Changed talks in detail about what an incredibly powerful experience it was.

As I wrote this book, and I think, in looking back over my life, I was able to see how God had always been there. It was that that gave me the hope and the trust that God was going to use this circumstance for good, whatever that might mean.

It's not that I was in denial, in actual fact, I put my affairs in order and there was even a funeral plan, but somehow I was able to hold two realities in my mind at once. First there was the reality where I may not exist on this earth and then the reality where I was healed.

The fact that I was able to keep both of these in my mind at the same time and they somehow weren't in tension with each other, I think speaks to that peace that passes all understanding. The experiences I had during that time were extraordinary in terms of God's presence.

Emily: Tell me more about what happened after your diagnosis and the treatment and also your miraculous healing.

Kate: One of the most extraordinary aspects about it was this amazing peace and calm that came over me. I remember the day that we were told the diagnosis, my husband said that he watched me and watched my face and the calm just descended over me. Then he said, "Kate, you could worry the leg off a table, so I know it didn't come from you." This calm stayed with me throughout. I felt closer to God's presence during this time. I woke every day feeling a sheer sense of joy at being alive. I'd wake every day and say, "This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it."

I was very aware of a lot of other people going through cancer alone and I was very blessed by the fact that I was surrounded by family. I was also aware that God giving me this peace was having a profound effect on my family around me. It enabled them to go on this journey with me; a journey of peace.

Also, remarkably, God's healing began even before the first treatment!

When I was first scanned, the radiologist told me that there were large masses of cancer and that it had spread. I was told to go back a second time to see her before the treatment started. You have a pre-scan before any treatment starts. She was passing the scanner over me and she said to me, "Kate, has your treatment started yet?" I thought it was a slightly odd question, given the fact that I was having my pre-treatment scan, but it wasn't until the very end that I said to her, "Why did you ask me that?" And she said, "Well, it's very odd." She said, "The cancer has shrunk and quite a lot." All I could say to her was, "There are a lot of people praying for me."

By the end of the chemotherapy cycle, the cancer had shrunk down so much that the doctor said to me, "I don't know the black and white rules as to what to do with you now, because in your circumstances we wouldn't normally undertake surgery, but you're doing so remarkably well. I am very anxious not to under treat you."

So I had surgery in January 2015. The surgeon told me, "I was able to remove most, but not all of the cancer." I was told that I would have radiotherapy, to give me as much quality of life, for as long as possible. However, after having the radiotherapy, I went back to see the surgeon on March 28th 2015. It's a day I shall never forget. He didn't say anything to me, he just turned around the report on his desk and he pointed to the last line of the report which said, 'There is no evidence of cancer in her body.'

Emily: Wow! How did you feel in that moment?

Kate: I almost don't have words to explain it. I had a sense of elation; a sense of affirmation; a sense of confirmation and a sense of almost being reborn. I had been given a second chance at life.

Emily: What impact did it have on your faith?