Your Corner

Cancer survivors are fighting for their lives everyday. There is something we are doing on a daily basis to try to beat it. It is like a boxing match - with you on one side, and the cancer on the other. Sometimes you get a good hit in, sometimes you miss. Maybe, you get a knockout blow and sometimes the cancer gets some good hits on you. It is a perpetual championship match.

There is something that every good boxer needs while fighting. Every good boxer has a good corner. Boxers don't win fights on their own. After each round, every fighter sits down in their corner and there is someone telling them what he/she should do to proceed. Maybe they should change something they did last time. Maybe they need some water or encouragement, to go back out there and fight. A boxer is nothing without his/her corner. After getting beat up, round after round he/she needs somebody with a different perspective.

I say all of that because I have a good corner. It is a tough fight, a tough opponent, and each round impacts you a different way. Most fighters are all beat up, but not me. I have a wife in my corner, who I know truly loves me and has supported me in many ways for a long time. She is the one giving me encouragement and nourishment. So I have the emotional and physical strength to go and fight another round. I have friends, family, prayer groups and even people I do not know in my corner telling me to go back out there, even when I feel like I can't. I have nurses and doctors in my corner. But most of all, I have Jesus in my corner. He has the best strategies. He alerts me to all of my opponents openings and weak spots. He tells me when I should duck, swing or take a couple of hits. Lastly, He will be the only one there if the fight ends in my loss. I don't plan to take an "L". I could have done that two weeks ago. So, here I am back in the ring and thankful for my corner.