A Prayer for a Friend Going Through Cancer
Photo by Eran Menashri on Pexels Someone you love just heard the word no one wants to hear, and now you don't know what to do with your hands or your evenings. Maybe it came in a doctor's small office, maybe over the phone while you were driving, maybe in a text you read three times because the first two didn't feel real. Cancer rearranges a person's whole calendar, and it rearranges yours too, because now you're the one trying to find words for something that has no good words. You've come here because praying feels like the only useful thing left to do. It is. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction. (2 Corinthians 1:3-4, ESV) Bringing this to God There's a particular kind of helplessness in praying for someone else's body. You can't take the diagnosis off them. You can't sit in the infusion chair in their place, no matter how much you'd t...