Trying New Things Cancer can improve the quality of your life. It can give you the courage to break out of old patterns and try something new. Some of that courage comes from realizing what it means to know that our days are numbered; that the end point of our life has slipped out of…
Why God? Asking the Hard Questions
God doesn’t always answer our prayer to rid us of cancer. He can, of course, if He chooses to do so. But when He doesn’t, we can drift out of the calm waters of faith into a whirlpool of confusion. My friend Diane hit that troubled water when her ovarian cancer recurred. “Why didn’t God…
Breast Cancer: Reaching for Remission
“Look at this verse,” my daughter, Laura, said to me, holding up her teacher’s manual for vacation Bible school. “How am I supposed to teach that to third graders?” She showed me Matthew 26:28 (KJV): For this is My blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Testament wasn’t a…