The Season You Could Not Feel Him — And He Was There the Whole Time

When God feels distant during cancer, most of us quietly land on one of two conclusions. Either He has walked away from us… or we have done something to push Him away. However, I want to offer you a third possibility tonight. And I believe it is the true one. He is right there. You just

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How to Deal With Scanxiety When You’re Waiting on God

If you are reading this while you are waiting on a scan or a set of test results, then learning how to deal with scanxiety is exactly what I want to talk with you about today…and I am so glad you are here. I have walked my own cancer journey, so I know this particular

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How to Support Someone With Cancer When You Are Scared Too

If someone you love has cancer, you have probably already asked yourself how to support someone with cancer without making it worse. You want to say the right thing. Meanwhile, you are terrified, and you are not sure you are allowed to be. I want to talk to you today, because most of what gets written

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Just Diagnosed With Cancer — What Doug Would Tell You

If you were just diagnosed with cancer, this episode was made for you. In Part One, my friend Doug DeFouw told us his story. Today I turned the conversation around and asked him about yours. This is Part Two of my conversation with Doug. However, you do not need to have heard Part One to get

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Facing Cancer Alone — Why We Shut the Door, and What It Costs Us

There is a moment right after a diagnosis when almost every one of us does the same thing. We start facing cancer alone — not because anyone abandoned us, but because we quietly decide that is how it has to be. We stop returning calls. We keep the details vague. And we tell ourselves we

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Surrender Isn’t Giving Up — It’s the Most Powerful Thing You Can Do

There is a question I still cannot answer with complete certainty, even today — and it sits at the heart of what finding peace in a cancer journey really means. On the day of my first surgery, lying in a hospital bed after four hours on the operating table, facing news I was not prepared for

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Trust and Surrender – The Most Courageous Thing You Can Do

If you’re walking through cancer right now, everything in you is probably screaming to fight, control, and manage every last detail. I understand that instinct completely — I lived it. But in this episode I want to share the two words that changed my entire experience of the journey: trust and surrender. They sound simple. They’re

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Encouragement When You Feel Emotionally Drained

Finding genuine emotional support for cancer patients — support that understands what you’re going through, not just physically but in your heart and soul — is one of the most important things you can do on this journey. There are moments in the cancer journey when your emotions feel like they’ve run out of fuel. For

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Encouragement When You Need Strength for Today

If you need encouragement for cancer patients that goes beyond “stay strong” and speaks directly into the exhaustion you actually feel — this post was written for you. Anyone who has been through any type of cancer knows that there are days in your journey when strength feels like a word meant for someone else. These

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Welcome to our BLOG

Welcome to NEVER ALONE: Faith Over Cancer If you are looking for a faith and cancer blog that goes beyond information and speaks directly to your heart, you have found it. This is Never Alone: Faith Over Cancer. Here, hope lives, encouragement and inspiration speak, peace comforts, and Jesus walks with us through every step of the cancer

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