Read the very words of Tony Snow as he first learns of his own colon cancer diagnosis:
I sat by my best friend's bedside a few years ago as a wasting cancer took him away. He kept at his table a worn Bible and a 1928 edition of the Book of Common Prayer. A shattering grief disabled his family, many of his old friends, and at least one priest. Here was a humble and very good guy, someone who apologized when he winced with pain because he thought it made his guest uncomfortable. He retained his equanimity and good humor literally until his last conscious moment. "I'm going to try to beat [this cancer]," he told me several months before he died. "But if I don't, I'll see you on the other side."
His gift was to remind everyone around him that even though God doesn't promise us tomorrow, he does promise us eternity—filled with life and love we cannot comprehend—and that one can in the throes of sickness point the rest of us toward timeless truths that will help us weather future storms.
Through such trials, God bids us to choose: Do we believe, or do we not?
To read this spiritually moving full commentary visit:
http://joelrosenberg.blogspot.com/2008/07/remembering-tony-snow-column-he-wrote.html
I sat by my best friend's bedside a few years ago as a wasting cancer took him away. He kept at his table a worn Bible and a 1928 edition of the Book of Common Prayer. A shattering grief disabled his family, many of his old friends, and at least one priest. Here was a humble and very good guy, someone who apologized when he winced with pain because he thought it made his guest uncomfortable. He retained his equanimity and good humor literally until his last conscious moment. "I'm going to try to beat [this cancer]," he told me several months before he died. "But if I don't, I'll see you on the other side."
His gift was to remind everyone around him that even though God doesn't promise us tomorrow, he does promise us eternity—filled with life and love we cannot comprehend—and that one can in the throes of sickness point the rest of us toward timeless truths that will help us weather future storms.
Through such trials, God bids us to choose: Do we believe, or do we not?
To read this spiritually moving full commentary visit:
http://joelrosenberg.blogspot.com/2008/07/remembering-tony-snow-column-he-wrote.html
The main thing is whether we live here on this earth a bit longer or we join the host of generations that have gone on before us, are we ready to meet the Creator of the universe? What will He think of the ways we brought honor to His name while we had our life here? If we don't "believe" in the eternal life, what if we are wrong? Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life and no man comes to the Father but by me." What if He is right?
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