Mountain Moving Faith

There's this woman who anyone who knows her would define her as beautiful, smart, radiant, thoughtful, caring, considerate, hilarious, fun, brave, and has an inner strength and greater faith that not many get to see. But I do.
When I was 12 years old, this woman was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was so confused as to why this seemingly perfect woman would be cursed with something so awful. I didn't understand why God would let a bad thing happen to a great person.
When this happened, I witnessed a strength that I had never witnessed before. I witnessed a woman with enormous amounts of bravery and courage conquer the beast of cancer. I remember sitting in the doctor's waiting room waiting for her to come out of her radiation appointments... now looking back, I remember only her beautiful face with a huge smile asking, "Ready to go?"
After that event in her life, she had a motivation to do whatever she could to never have to experience that again. She started eating healthier, exercised more, and became very knowledgeable in all aspects of healthy living/preventing cancer.

Between that experience and now, there has been a new kind of thing in her life. She was raised Mormon, but quit that after figuring that she would never be able to make it to heaven with all the rules they have. Since she quit the Mormon way of living when she was younger, she never really got into the religion thing. She always believed in God and believed He loved her, but didn't know much about who He is. When I fell in love with God at the age of 15, I began to pray for her. I asked God to allow her to get to know who He is and make ways for her to be able to fall in love with Him.

About 3 years ago she started going to a new church. She fell in love with it! She understood what the pastor was talking about, was able to apply it to her life, and she bought her first Bible and read it everyday. She kept asking me questions about God and the stories she was reading about Him. Her faith grew stronger everyday and I knew that God had answered my prayers.

Two years ago she was diagnosed with breast cancer again. This time, I knew who God was and I knew how big He was, but I was so angry. I was even more confused as to why God would put this bad thing into a great woman's life. This time, the doctors strongly suggested that she do chemotherapy since it was the second time and it came back worse. After becoming so knowledgeable in health and these situations, she refused and took a chance on faith. She was so brave to me. She trusted in God through every part of that experience and cried and smiled and thanked Him for allowing her to know what she knew and thanked Him for her health.

Now she's better than ever. Cancer free and healthy. Sometimes God takes us on paths that we wouldn't choose for ourselves. We pray to overcome, but we don't want things to overcome. I prayed for her and God more than answered my prayer, He used her to change who I am. She has faith that can move mountains as well as everything else. And I can't believe that I am so blessed to have her as my mom. Thank you Jesus!