In this blog and the accompanying book Cancer's Windrunners, I want to share with you what I have learned from a group of amazing patients who journeyed with God through their cancers. They seemed to live lives of more purpose, meaning and joy — and often longer than I ever expected. Whatever was going on with them I wanted — and wanted to pass on to my other patients. HERE IT IS IN BLOG FORM. For opportunities of a secular journey in a life with cancer, see the Bell Lap Blog.
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REMEMBER - start with Blogs 1-74 on the CancerDocTalk.com for practical advise on running the bell lap, understanding and making the most out of interaction with doctors, evaluating data and making decisions.
Windrunner Journey - from the tumult of uncertainty to peace in spite of uncertainty
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It seems that peace is directly proportional to time spent with Jesus. It takes practice and the short lappers (those already looking death in the face) often just don’t have enough time to figure Him out. A relationship with Jesus is not nearly as complex as a relationship with a spouse or a teenager, but it takes time and commitment. Even though their experience of it often fluctuated, the short lappers still said their journey was worthwhile; they did discover a new destiny in Heaven which delivered a calm to their final days.
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Their journey did begin with meeting God so let’s start there and then ferret out just what it is that enables some who meet Him to live such amazing lives, even in the valley of the shadow of death.
WHAT’S WITH MEETING GOD?
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WHAT SEPARATES WINDRUNNERS FROM THE REST
PETER -“I‘ve met God but I don’t have the peace that you are describing? What is so different about these so called Windrunners and how did they do better?” queried a man with salt and pepper hair in a grey pin striped suit, polished cap-toed shoes and a newly diagnosed kidney cancer.
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I didn’t recognize them at first because I had no idea there was such a thing as a Windrunner, or for that matter a Bell Lap - until I saw someone running for their life – and well. No one had told me about them in med school, nor on the evening news or from the pulpit. Then I met one, and saw one, then another and another. Whoa! Who were these people and what was so special about their stride?
