When Cancer Makes Someone You Love Angry with God
When cancer made my daughter angry at God, I learned you can’t hand somebody your peace. You can only stay with them while they find their own.
Faith
Where Christ shows up in all of this, or doesn’t seem to some days. Prayer, doubt, Philippians 4:13, and what it actually looks like to lean on God through cancer — no polish, no pretending it was easy.
The 5:23 Text
At 5:23 in the morning, one day after I was told I had cancer, my daughter texted me: “I’m just so angry at God.” I was rolling down I-40 in a semi, crying where no one could see, and I had to decide what she needed to hear. This is what I told her.
Dein Wille geschehe.
I had heard “Thy will be done” my entire life. Walking toward a cancer biopsy, I finally had to decide whether I actually believed those words.
Sitting in the Waiting Room of Your Mind
The Five-Day Gap Between “Not Good” and My Biopsy The waiting room is not the chairs we sat in at
Is Denial Normal When You Might Have Cancer?
My Four Days After Hearing “Cancerous” You’d think hearing “cancerous” out loud, from a professional, looking you in the eye
Why Do We Wait So Long to Say What We Already Know?
A Time to Keep Silence A Healed and Strong Series — Time Bargain The Day The Normal Broke I Told