Life Is More Fragile Than We Often Realize
That truth has been the reality for my family and me through the second half of this year. It started with my brother-in-law, who came to visit us this summer. While he was here, he was experiencing severe and recurring abdominal pain, so much that I told him, “That sounds like when I had a hernia, You should go see a doctor.” So he did – and at the age of 61, he received a diagnosis of advanced, inoperable, stage IV, pancreatic cancer. Obviously, that news rocked him, my sister, their sons, and my family and me. My brother-in-law has been a brother in Christ to me since I was ten. And the news of his cancer meant coming alongside him to walk toward the end.