Don't ask 'why me?'.....instead state 'why NOT ME!'

Oftentimes we wonder why, what if, woulda, shoulda, coulda.....Recently, one of my great friends was dx with a certain kind of brain cancer that requires a specific kind of treatment, a more aggressive treatment...all that to say...her diagnosis was a shock to everyone. I mean, just a few days before she was picking her kids up from school...she was getting her nails & hair done....she was in therapy for what the initial doctors had missed and labeled as a 'fused spine'..........I get angry just thinking about it.......her new doctors wasted zero time in their attempts to remove this tumor that somehow found it's way to my friends' brain!!
The day after her surgery, my son and I go to visit her in her hospital room and as I walk through the door of her room, chills come over me as though Jesus himself was holding and comforting me and giving me, at that very moment the strength He knew I would need to deal. I walk through the heavy hospital room door and....

I see my dearest friend hooked to all of these wires and poles and iv's and well you get the point....the first thing she said to me, and I'll never forget it, was "THERE'S MY GIRL"! I felt like my heart had dropped to my toesies...we laughed, we cried, we hugged, we talked and we cried and laughed some more. I didn't wanna leave. She simply asked me..."Stella, why me....why is God punishing me? I've been doing all that I should; I pay my bills on time, I take care of my kids (who are awesome young men), I don't claim to be the biggest christian but I believe in God...why me Stella?".....We were looking each other dead in the eyes....I simply whispered...."Why not you?"