"THE CANCER is terminal. There is nothing more we can do." These are just about the most dreaded words we can hear in today's world. We bring our loved one home to face a final ending. Our grief begins and continues through all the days and nights that follow, however long they may be. We suffer the agonies of "why," but no answers come.

However, there is a blessing in all of this. We have time to reassure our loved one of our love and support, whatever may come; we have time to right any wrongs that might be festering in his or her life; we have time for counseling for the one who will remain; we have time to adhere to the wishes of the one soon to be leaving.

When that final scene is played out, we have the comfort of knowing we did all we could here on earth for them. Our grief goes on, but it is softened by the knowledge our loved one is now completely in the hands of a loving God who can care for them far more than we ever could.