When Karen Melby feared for her husband's life, she and her family would read scripture in his hospital room.

And here's what happened.

Maybe Scott didn't stop shaking. Maybe his pain didn't go away in that very moment.

But it brought us all into a right place where we had a right perspective on the whole situation.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for October 22nd, 2015.

All of us will face suffering one way or another.

So all of us need to hear the perspective of Scott and Karen Melby.

God has given them grace to handle a rare form of cancer with joy and peace.

We've heard Scott and Karen's story over the last couple of days, and on Tuesday we heard

an interview about how thankfulness affected their first round of treatment in 2013.

And yesterday Karen told us the moving story of Scott's blood transfusion and what it taught her about Jesus's sacrifice for us.

You can hear those programs at revive our hearts.com.

And since the time they told those stories, the Melbies have gone through many ups and downs.

Today, Nancy, will bring us up to date on what's been happening to them lately.

The conversation will help you face suffering with valuable perspective and joy.

I'm sitting here looking at you, and after you've been through the ravages of this for two years,

you've lost a lot of weight, you're still dealing, You're just coming out of the second bout of all of this.

And so you sound very strong for those who are just listening to you but haven't watched you go through this.

But this was life-threatening. This has been excruciating. I was with you guys in the hospital not too many months ago, and it was really, really bad.

I don't think Scott, you even remembered that I was there because you were in so much pain,

so much shaking, going through the treatment at that point.

So for someone listening, this was not just like a bump in the road where it was easy to say,

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