Why me?! …Well, why not me? Where is God?
As you come face-to-face with mortality, where do you find the strength and inspiration to live with cancer?
Whether you've just received a diagnosis or been in remission for years, cancer is a devastating experience. Smith, a cancer survivor herself, chronicles in an honest way how to live — not merely cope — through what comes next. With a wise heart gained by experience, she shows how the crisis offers challenges and options that can transform survivors in deeply healing ways.
"Cancer brings blessings, hardships and teachings," Smith writes. "We can immediately list the hardships. Blessings are a little harder to see at first, and teachings are perhaps the hardest of all. …Today, forget the needles and the pain and the nausea and begin to lay a foundation for dealing with cancer."
Fear Not is a guided six-week experience to help people work through the big questions and to find fulfillment and peace of mind. The book's first half is a personal workbook, while the second half is a leader's guide for adapting the workbook into a survivors' group. Throughout both, Smith writes in an intimate, sensitive tone that invites reflection and growth — no matter how hopeless it may seem.
Using storytelling, drawing, meditations, imagery and Bible passages, she guides you to name the difficult realities and helps you develop practices that foster faith, healing and self-understanding. You'll be led to discover the endurance, the courage and the humor you thought you'd lost!
Excerpts from the poetry and journals of cancer survivors emphasize the real-life struggle to find meaning and opportunity in illness. Smith will gently lead you through the dark nights to see your struggle as growth rather than destruction.
You are more than your cancer.
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