Posted on 08/05/2007 10:23:09 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative
Life on earth is brief whether you live to be 10 or 100.
Great article.
Sometimes, it is what it is. The important thing is that we do not cling to this life too tightly.
Very nice. Agree without reservation!
I have had cancer twice and have survived cancer twice. It’s your belief and attitude. Good luck and I am saying prayers for you.
Thank you so much for this post. I had been searching for just the right thing to say to two friends undergoing this challenge. I have already emailed this article, thanks to you. Bless you.
A positively Buddhist outlook on life...
I am not buying that.
However, I will pray for a successful surgery not just for the writer but for all cancer patients of all faiths.
I thought it was a nice counterpoint to the unbiblical prosperity gospel nonsense.
I have his book called “Suffering and the Sovereignty of God” and this is a part of one chapter. The book is a compilation from different authors on suffering. There is an excellent chapter in the book by Joni Eareckson Tada.
I recently read another Piper book, When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God—and Joy. The title intrigued me, and it is an excellent book for anybody, but especially if someone is dealing with depression or the emotional aspects of suffering.
I’m still looking for the answer to how God can let innocents and other sweet people suffer the most horrible fate.
The only answer I can come up with is that God just helps us get through what happens to us on earth and this makes our lives a little more bearable.
Ping!
Like I said. I am not buying the writer’s statement.
Perhaps the writer should take a walk on Pediatric Cancer Ward.
There is glory in the cure but not that disease.
I wish the writer well, but he's one sick puppy in several ways.
Interesting connection with this morning’s homily at St. Benedict Abbey. We heard about two American women, one already a saint...Kathleen Drexel, a convert to Catholicism, and Rose Hawthorne, Nathaniel’s daughter...on her way to sainthood. Both women dedicated their lives to the poor, Kathleen having inherited a huge fortune, devoted it to blacks and other minorities, founding schools, etc.. Rose Hawthorne dedicated her life to caring for cancer patients on an island in NY Harbor, where they’d been ‘dumped’. At that time, early 20th century, they were treated like lepers. She founded an order of religious and treated those terminally ill with cancer.
The homily juxtaposed the actions of both these women, well born, and in the case of Kathleen Drexel, rich, with the antics of the Paris Hiltons, et. al of today. If CNN had to report that they’d given their wealth to the poor and dedicated their lives to helping others, CNN would probably have a complete meltdown.
There was no cure, but God has gotten the glory from him having had this horrible sickness in so many ways that I couldn't even begin to tell you, beginning with his testimony to the doctors. They have told me over and over that they will never forget how Faith sustained us when the days should have been horribly dark.
I don’t believe that God gave you the cancer, but He certainly allowed for you to be stricken with the disease.
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