Folks keep asking me how I’m doing, which is very kind. I’m not always sure what to say. Sara sometimes seems peeved by my optimism, but I truly believe we’re going to get through this okay. Sure, it’s gonna suck. Lots of it already has.
Yes, I know it will be hard to watch Sara recover from surgery, probably lose her hair to chemo and all that. But we have been so abundantly blessed our whole lives through! And the blessings ain’t over yet.
Amazing and challenging article here about dealing with cancer, and reconciling such a difficult thing with the fact that God is good. The authors, John Piper and David Powlinson, wrote these thoughts after being diagnosed with cancer themselves.
2 Corinthians 1:9: “We felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.”
John Piper writes: “The aim of God in your cancer (among a thousand other good things) is to knock props out from under our hearts so that we rely utterly on him.”
God’s sovereignty is tough to stomach at times, but if he isn’t sovereign over all things (including Sara’s cancer) then he’s not really worth trusting, is he?
Hey everyone. Sara and I decided it might be helpful to start a blog to keep folks updated on Sara’s breast cancer, treatment and recovery. Above all, we strive to glorify God through this trial, by struggling authentically and crying freely even as we praise the One who saves and sustains us.
Posting comments here will be a great way for you to keep in touch with us, so please feel free to respond to our posts. Thanks!
Just a few days after we learned Sara has cancer, we flew to Florida.
It was strange timing, but this trip with my family had been planned for 2 years, as a celebration of my parents’ 40th anniversary.
It turned out to be a wonderful week to have simply have fun, and to enjoy watching Lucy and Campbell as they experienced DisneyWorld for the first time.
Here are a few pics for ya.
-Christopher
Good article on cnn.com about helping children understand and cope with Mom’s cancer, loss of hair, etc.
