Easter Sunday service at church, followed by four family friends round for meals. We remembered that death was defeated, it could not hold Jesus, and it can no longer terrify those who believe in him. That certainty gives us great freedom.
We also celebrated Jan's birthday. I don't think we will ever treat birthdays so callously in future, as each year survival after cancer will be a successful landmark for which we will give thanks. No longer can we just assume life goes on unchanged.
James chapter 4 verses 13 onwards has: "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that." But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
Cancer makes us more aware that we live only by God's grace.
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