Read the Scriptures First and Foremost...
Anyone having cancer, or other life threatening terminal illnesses, should have hope to fall back on. If and when earthly endeavors fail to deliver us from physical death, we can only have hope for an everlasting spiritual life. I have been blessed with the time to get right with God, whereas those who are taken from this earth in an instant have tragically not received my same opportunity, even as I contemplate that my demise may be sooner than later, short of God granting me a miracle that extends my physical life into very old age. That's why I feel blessed by the cancer on the one hand, and disappointed by what otherwise seems to be an unfair, shortened physical life on the other hand. I have received the opportunity to reconcile myself to God by being given over 3-1/2 years to grow in my own faith, with an eye toward everlasting spiritual life. But, that can occur only if I seek God, receive his Grace, and have genui...