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    A Reason for Hope: Gaining Strength for Your Fight against Cancer
    A Reason for Hope: Gaining Strength for Your Fight against Cancer
    A Reason for Hope: Gaining Strength for Your Fight against Cancer
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    A Reason for Hope: Gaining Strength for Your Fight against Cancer

    By Michael S. Barry

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    As a pastor and chaplain at a cancer treatment facility, Dr. Michael S. Barry has spent hours with cancer patients listening to their stories, reflecting with them on their disease, and helping them better understand the role their faith can play at this critical time. And frequently, he has sat beside them as they wrestle with tough questions that have no easy answers.

    Now Dr. Barry shares the answers that have come to his heart through his ministry to men, women, and young people engaged in the battle of their lives. These answers will re-engage your faith, re-energize your mind and body, and revitalize your hope. These answers will truly give you A Reason for Hope.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid C Cook
    Release dateSep 1, 2015
    ISBN9781434709998
    A Reason for Hope: Gaining Strength for Your Fight against Cancer

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      Foreword

      Take Control of Your Cancer

      This is a book about taking control of your cancer rather than being controlled by it.

      Cancer is a disease in which attitude is everything. Getting and maintaining the right attitude is critical for survival—emotional, spiritual, and perhaps even physical survival. Scientists are only beginning to discover how closely the mind and the emotions are connected to the body and its responses to disease. The right attitude, then, becomes literally a matter of life or death.

      Having cancer can be a difficult experience even for persons with deep religious faith. For those struggling with their faith, however, the burden of this disease can be enormous. This book will help you bear that burden—and it will increase your faith.

      The diagnosis of cancer sends a clear message: now is the time to get it right. This time in your life, right now, presents a tremendous opportunity. At no previous time has there been such pressure and urgency to make the changes that really matter—changes that you had always intended to make but never got around to. The time to delay, to put things off, is over. Cancer has a way of riveting a person’s focus beyond the many usual distractions and onto the important things. Don’t waste this precious time experimenting—desperately grabbing at one thing and then another. This is the time to embark on a new path—the right path—and this book will help you find and stay on that path.

      Dr. Michael Barry has worked in the trenches with cancer patients and their families for many years and knows how to provide spiritual guidance. He knows what this disease is like—the devastating effects it can have—and what works and what doesn’t work. I can vouch for the fact that the views presented in A Reason for Hope are written by a man of faith, experience, and wisdom. There are no rabbit trails here that will take you to dead ends. Every piece of advice you are about to read leads to life and life abundantly.

      Cancer doesn’t have to devastate your life. There are many reasons why you should have hope—reasons most people aren’t aware of, reasons you probably won’t hear from your doctor and maybe not even from your pastor. The information presented in this little book will help normalize and neutralize the fear that accompanies this disease and replace your fear with hope, determination, and direction.

      This is a book about taking control of your cancer rather than being controlled by it; about fighting the cancer; about becoming assertive in your treatment. It is also a book about forgiving—forgiving others, forgiving yourself, and forgiving God. It will help you release the health-damaging, cancer-fertilizing anger and despair that drive many to their graves and redirect this emotional energy toward life and hope. Dr. Barry will help you want to live, fight to live, and understand what you have to live for. Following his advice may not only add years to your life, if that is God’s will for you, but it will infuse life into those years. Don’t let cancer rob you of the joy that God wants you to experience during this time.

      Dr. Barry supports the view that it may be God’s will for you to be cancer-free so that you can serve and glorify Him in your life. So this is a book about miracles—real people like you who were miraculously healed and given a second chance. I don’t know if it’s God’s will for you to be cancer-free in order to glorify and serve Him, or whether it is His will for you to glorify and serve Him in your dying and death. I do know that it is His will that you bear this disease with a Christlike attitude to whatever end it takes you. We are all destined to die, and whether you live a few more years is less important than making the changes in attitude that can transform your relationship with God, with yourself, and with others so that you will become the person God created you to be. If you accomplish that, then it really doesn’t matter how long you live or how soon you die.

      You will want to keep this book on your bedside table. Read a chapter before you go to sleep, and read another when you wake up in the morning. Take it with you to the doctor’s office and read it as you wait. Take it to the hospital with you during your treatments. Let these words sink deep into your mind, body, and spirit—let them add to and boost the healing effects of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or whatever kind of treatment you are receiving.

      Given what we now know about the impact of the mind on the body and the impact of the spirit on both the mind and the body, there is every reason to believe that A Reason for Hope will have a very positive effect on your life. Not only is it good advice from a purely scientific and medical standpoint, but it is also good advice from a spiritual standpoint. Grow spiritually and fight the cancer at the same time—you can’t go wrong.

      A Reason for Hope offers a lifeline—do yourself a favor and grab it.

      Harold G. Koenig, MD, director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, and professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center

      Introduction

      A Reservoir of Strength

      If ever there was a time to get it right, the time is now.

      A biblical view of history is linear, not circular. According to the Bible, there is a beginning and an end—a time when God created the heavens and the earth and, following the second coming, a time when history as we know it will come to a dramatic close.

      Most of us who embrace the Bible’s teachings do not believe in reincarnation—the belief that there are repeated opportunities to transform ourselves into higher, more perfect, levels of humanity. On the contrary, Christians believe that there is but one life to live, and therefore the challenge is, with God’s help, to get it right. There are no second or third chances. With this in mind, I originally titled the manuscript for this book Getting It Right. Anyone confronted with cancer—as either a cancer patient or the spouse, family member, or friend of

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