Stepping into the Ring: Fighting for Hope Over Despair in the Battle Against Breast Cancer
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Using the story of her breast cancer diagnosis, Nicole Johnson offers her readers insights for dealing with major losses of all kinds while extending genuine hope to those stuck in despair.
"Finding out I had cancer was like going to sleep in my own bed and suddenly waking up in the middle of a boxing ring. Out of the clear blue I am standing toe-to-toe with the Heavyweight Champion of the World, the crowd is looking on, and I am in my pajamas and don’t even know how to throw a punch.”
Stepping into the Ring is the 2002 Women of Faith® drama sketch by Nicole Johnson, possibly her most powerful piece of writing to date.
"Women have always had a unique fellowship of suffering," Nicole says. Where is the woman old or young who will not shed a tear and silently scream in her heart as she walks in these pages through the diagnosis of breast cancer and the devastation that ensues? This is a "must" read for breast cancer patients and their loved ones.
Nicole Johnson
Nicole Johnson, author of Fresh Brewed Life, has a uniquely creative voice. As an accomplished writer, speaker, and actor, Nicole has performed in thousands of churches and venues over the last twenty-five years, including more than a decade of touring with the national conference Women of Faith. Nicole lives in Santa Monica, CA with her husband and two children. Nicole writes regularly at www.nicolejohnson.org
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Stepping into the Ring - Nicole Johnson
STEPPING into the
RING
ALSO BY
NICOLE JOHNSON
Fresh Brewed Life
Dropping Your Rock
Nicole Johnson Live (video):
Funny Stuff Women Can Relate To
Nicole Johnson Live II (video):
Stepping into the Ring
www.freshbrewedlife.com
STEPPING into the
RING
Fighting for Hope over Despair
IN THE BATTLE AGAINST BREAST CANCER
Nicole Johnson
SteppingIntotheRing_LSI_0005_001© 2002 Nicole Johnson.
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored
in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic,
mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations
in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Thomas Nelson.
Thomas Nelson is a registered trademark of Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Scripture quotations are from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION.
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission
of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.
ISBN 978-1-4002-7812-1 (tp)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnson, Nicole.
Stepping into the ring: fighting for hope over despair
in the battle against breast cancer/by Nicole Johnson.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-8499-1781-3 (hc)
1. Breast cancer—Patients—Religious life.
2. Breast Cancer—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title.
BV4910.33 .J64 2003
248.8’619699449—dc21
2002010583
Printed in the United States of America
09 10 11 12 13 — 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
Round I: The Heavyweight Champion of the World
Round II: Putting on the Gloves
Round III: Choosing Your Corner
Round IV: Below the Belt
Round V: Taking It on the Chin
Round VI: Hits from the Blind Side
Round VII: Down, but Not Out
Round VIII: The Killer Punch
Round IX: The New Heavyweight Champion
Every three minutes a woman in this country is diagnosed with breast cancer. Although I haven’t had the disease myself, I have been deeply inspired by courageous women who have. Some of these women have shared their stories with