9 Ways to Encourage Someone With Cancer Learn some practical ways to show love to someone facing cancer. By Chris Lawrence Sometimes even the smallest acts of kindness can help give someone with cancer the hope they so desperately need. The word "encourage" comes … [Read more...] about 9 Ways to Encourage Someone With Cancer
Strength And Peace
Journaling: From Dark Days to Hope
Journaling: From Dark Days to Hope How journaling on a cancer journey can help you find hope. Patti Hoover (Hope Has Arrived Support Staff) Some people have kept a journal their whole lives. I was never consistent with journaling. But that changed … [Read more...] about Journaling: From Dark Days to Hope
4 Things Not to Say to Suffering People
4 Things Not to Say to Suffering People What to avoid saying when someone’s suffering is too great for words. Lynn Eib (Author and cancer survivor) Two days after my cancer surgery in 1990 at the age of 36, a friend came into my hospital room with a … [Read more...] about 4 Things Not to Say to Suffering People
Let the Light In
Let the Light In How can you bring God’s hope and light into the darkness of facing cancer? By Chris Lawrence The battle to find hope amidst cancer—as a child or as an adult—can be dark and intense. To suggest otherwise would be inaccurate or unkind. But what if … [Read more...] about Let the Light In
Hope In the Long Dark Hospital Nights
Hope in the Long Dark Hospital Nights How you can find hope when cancer and the fear of death overwhelms you. By Craig Lawrence It was my tenth day in room 2-141, not knowing if I would survive. During the day the hospital buzzed with enough activity to keep … [Read more...] about Hope In the Long Dark Hospital Nights