The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer
Dan SimmonsMots clés humankind cancer natural-order
We Let the Boat Drift
I set out for the pond, crossing the ravine
where seedling pines start up like sparks
between the disused rails of the Boston and Maine.
The grass in the field would make a second crop
if early autumn rains hadn't washed
the goodness out. After the night's hard frost
it makes a brittle rustling as I walk.
The water is utterly still. Here and there
a black twig sticks up. It's five years today,
and even now I can't accept what cancer did
to him -- not death so much as the annihilation
of the whole man, sense by sense, thought
by thought, hope by hope.
Once we talked about the life to come.
I took the Bible from the nightstand
and offered John 14: "I go to prepare
a place for you.""Fine. Good," he said.
"But what about Matthew? 'You, therefore,
must be perfect, as your heavenly Father
is perfect.'" And he wept.
My neighbor honks and waves driving by.
She counsels troubled students; keeps bees;
her goats follow her to the mailbox.
Last Sunday afternoon we went canoeing on the pond. Something terrible at school had shaken her. We talked quietly far from shore. The paddles
rested across our laps; glittering drops
fell randomly from their tips. The light
around us seemed alive. A loon-itinerant-
let us get quite close before it dove, coming up
after a long time, and well away from humankind
Mots clés nature dying comfort cancer
Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.
Holly RobinsonMots clés fate chance illness cancer fate-s-edge
Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann’s constant concern was, What if I have cancer?
K. Howard JoslinMots clés fear faith trials cancer
Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.
K. Howard JoslinMots clés life pain soul prayer cancer trails
DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.
K. Howard JoslinMots clés faith prayer cancer pathology
God had not abandoned us. He was actively working behind the scenes, when I had no means or spirit to fight.
K. Howard JoslinMots clés faith trials cancer opponents
God dramatically slew one monstrous opponent and then threw us into the arena against a stronger and more vicious foe.
K. Howard JoslinMots clés god trials cancer opponent foe
I have no guarantee that God will choose to heal Ann, but I know he wants me to pray to that end.
K. Howard JoslinMots clés prayer healing cancer
Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you.
Anthony LiccioneMots clés smoking dying cancer exhale inhale killing-off severe
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