The Things Cancer Teaches Us

A dear friend said something in her share of my last post this week. She said, “The things cancer teaches us…” That hit home with me. Cancer has taught me many things, and it continues to do so. Or should I say, I’m learning things because of cancer. I don’t necessarily think that cancer is the teacher. For me, God is the teacher. Life is the teacher. But it took cancer to get me to listen.

I threw this question out today to the online support group that I mention so often. I asked what cancer has taught them. I could relate to pretty much every answer they gave. The uniformity of responses was amazing.

One said that cancer showed him that life can change in a single moment. Truer words were never spoken. I know that my life changed forever when I got that phone call from my urologist. That’s when I got hit by God’s 2 By 4, and nothing has been the same since.

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