{"id":3139,"date":"2005-08-30T23:36:01","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T23:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/a-must-readand-prayers-for-young-mothers.html"},"modified":"2005-08-30T23:36:01","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T23:36:01","slug":"a-must-readand-prayers-for-young-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/08\/a-must-readand-prayers-for-young-mothers.html","title":{"rendered":"A must-read…and prayers for young mothers."},"content":{"rendered":"

Please go read this blog of a young mother who is fighting cancer with an astonishing spirit and awesome strength. <\/a><\/p>\n

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People often personify cancer, and after yesterday I completely understood why. Cancer is like an obnoxious person at a party who won’t allow you to escape the conversation. A houseguest who can’t take the hint that s\/he has out stayed the welcome. Meeting the most unpleasant person you can imagine but being forced to spend every waking\/sleeping hour with that person. Well, I don’t want to be friends, I’m not afraid to work hard to kick this stuff out of my body, and I refuse to spend so much time with someone I can’t stand. So we’ll keep working to be cancer free, one day at a time. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And I also ask your prayers for Corry, who was the coordinator of the event at which I spoke down in Arizona. She and her husband are great folks – Steubenville grads, lovely young people, who have a new (born in March) baby. Just three weeks after her baby was born, she was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma.<\/p>\n

Please pray for both of them..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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