Awful decisions - faith, alternative medicines

I received a comment yesterday from a father whose son has serious cancer. How does one respond?

I was hit within 24 hours of that by news that my new born grandson has strep B infection, 10% mortality rate with associated risks of awful complications. We are told that he is responding positively to antibiotics.

I have no easy answer. I believe in a sovereign God, and believe we release our loved one's into his final care, and death is not the ultimate tragedy. In the meantime I fast and pray that God will mercifully heal and also thank God for the antibiotics.

Twice this week I have been referred to Fanny Crosby's story. Blinded at the age of 6 weeks by a quack doctor, she went on to write many of our hymns. So one sees from her life the dangers of quack medicine, yet also how a life can still be devoted to God and pleasing to him in spite of blindness.......

Why has God led me to these stories? I trust and pray grandson is not blinded by the strep B, though doctors have already said he has a 50% chance of brain damage.

Sorry to fellow sufferers, I have no easy answer but prayer and fasting.