This past Sunday Alistair recommended the book My God is True: Lessons Learned Along Cancer's Dark Road. You may purchase a copy for yourself or a friend anytime at Books By The Park.
"My search is over for the one book to give to someone battling cancer. This material is exceptional - the most helpful I have read on this subject."
- Alistair Begg
A Brief Excerpt
Before the curtain rises on Act 1, let me say that I would be the first to acknowledge that our experience with cancer was not as arduous and painful as that of many others. Between the day of my diagnosis and the day when the door was finally, happily closed on the treatment process, less that one year had elapsed. But for many, the road is much longer. Also - at the risk of stating the obvious - my treatments worked. I was healed. But for many,healing never comes, the road ends in death, and loved ones are left in sorrow. I do not claim that we suffered the most. Many have traveled darker paths.
Still, I think it is true to say that a little cancer goes a long way. Though we did not suffer the most, we certainly suffered enough - enough to be given a unique opportunity (what peculiar 'opportunities' the Father gives to his children!) to consider the reality of suffering in the light of the gospel.
I should also say that though I was healed, at other times in my life some close to me were not. In God's providence our family has not been left untouched by the worst that cancer can do. In my own life the Lord has given, and the Lord has taken away. I write as one who has seen both life and death. More about that later.
