Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.

Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.

DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.

Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.''No.''It might be important.''It might make her die.

Heaven is freakin' not ready for me!" - seven-time cancer survivor Dionne Warner in Never Leave Your Wingman

The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.

The "I love you"s are exchanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.

Everyday is a good day, even when things are hard because we are still here, still fighting to live among the latter.

Hope for the best,brace yourself for the worst and no matter what you’re faced with, make a plan to KEEP GOING!

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows humor.

God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.

When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann’s constant concern was, What if I have cancer?

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.