A Godly Perspective on Cancer

Cancer is common, and as a teacher you are likely to be teaching someone who has cancer, or loves a person fighting cancer.

Review this commentary by Tony Snow, "Cancer's Unexpected Blessings," and keep it in your files. Great, helpful insights here.

The natural reaction is to turn to God and ask him to serve as a cosmic Santa. "Dear God, make it all go away. Make everything simpler." But another voice whispers: "You have been called." Your quandary has drawn you closer to God, closer to those you love, closer to the issues that matter—and has dragged into insignificance the banal concerns that occupy our "normal time."