What is Life?

Great story. I believe that is the safest thing to resort to when you are all out of everything else. Love rules the world.

Well, I am glad for the positive outcome - I too once had a cancer scare. I know a little how you felt.

Family is sometimes all you have.

Will,
Best wishes to you and your family for your recovery. It sounds as if you have the best family one could ever hope for. I hope you recover to continue your work of encouragement, I know I apprecieate what you are doing.
Jon

Will,
The Lord did something similar for me just today. I was getting a little anxious again about the leukemia I am fighting, thinking I was glad it was Sunday and I could get filled up again at church. Before that could even happen, while lying in my husband’s arms, the Lord spoke to my spirit and said, “With long life will I satisfy you.” That’s all I will need for a long, long time!
SZ

Love is a choice. The way your wife waits for you, holds your hand, prays for you, reassures you. Her choice. The way she loves you is the very way you need to be loved. How fortunate you are to have her and she you.

Will,
The first time I saw you and Debbie at Michael’s house, I sensed the deep love between the two of you. What a blessing you both share in your lives - which then was there for you, Will, as you experienced this very anxious moment in your life. God be with you both!!

Dear Will,
I had MOHS surgery on my face for skin cancer (jaw line)a year ago. Grew up in south Florida and although my mother religiously put sun screen on us and made us wear long-sleeve shirts some (even in the water), this place showed up. I had a friend sitting with me (I wasn’t going to and am SO glad she persisted in inviting herself). It’s a shock to the system and being. Be gentle with yourself!

What a joy to read of your precious connection with your wife. So uplifting to read about couples who share this depth and authenticity of standing in each other’s presence, heart to heart. My favorite posts of yours have been the ones that include her. Blessings heaped upon you both and especially for your speedy recovery. Sincerely, Jana P.S. I did use a roll-on Vitamin E on the scar after it had healed.

Will,

Sending positive thoughts and prayers your way for a speedy and complete recovery. Thank you for all of the positive and inspirational thoughts you have shared. Continue to live your dream!

Hi Will
Glad your surgery was a success. As a BC survivor I know some of what you must have been feeling and the belief that we must keep everything as normal as possible in our daily lives while we get thru medical problems. All the best for a speedy recovery.

thanks always for the interesting things you send that make me consider things and look at life more closely and sometimes differently.

Cannot but be so incredibly touched by the power of your honesty with yourself and your feelings, and with the world. In many ways what you talk about is the simple structure of man, the frailness of the human condition. But what gives the dignity to the life to the very soul of man is the very thing you expose. The pure simplicity of honesty, the real. Thank you for giving me this opportunity of sharing this.

I’m not sure where you got the idea that “findamentalist scientists” (I’m not sure the word “findamentalist” means what you think it means) and “angry atheists” don’t believe in love or believe the body is just a wad of tissue dominated by brain chemistry. Maybe Richard Dawkins believes that — but maybe Dawkins is a schmuck. As an atheist in a seriously committed relationship with a woman and step-kids he loves very much, I certainly don’t recognize myself in this depiction — I recognize myself and my life much more in the “love look” of your wife and the devotion to each other you share. It makes me wonder why you felt that this story would be made better by attacking as a group people whose lives you clearly don’t understand — or, more troubling, whose lives you do understand because they’re not mch different from yours, but which understanding you apparently cannot accept. The fact is, when you reject external, absolute sources of morality as a given, you have to rely *even more* on love and community to do what’s right.

I’ve been following ADP for a while now, I guess without realizing that it was a Christians-only site. That’s too bad, because there’s an awful lot of people around who don’t share your faith but who do share the commitments to community, happiness, and yes, love that ADP seemed, to me, to be about.

Will - Thank you for putting the soul back into living. The universe has a way of forcing people together in times of crisis. There are larger, karmic forces at work that can’t simply be attributed to science as some would have us believe. I for one believe that all of us have been put here for greater purpose than ourselves. Thank you for writing this blog and keeping people connected.

I wish you the best in your recovery.