Perhaps (Monday) Perhaps God didn’t create cancer to teach us anything. Perhaps it’s a terrible reminder that creation is unfinished, that even the sacred body is vulnerable to the randomness of existence. I cannot believe in a God who needs our suffering to make us wiser, or our grief to make us grateful. But I can believe in a God who sits beside us in the darkness, who does not explain, does not intervene, but does not turn away. Perhaps the question is not why God created cancer, but how we might find God in the fierceness with which we refuse to let suffering have the final word.

Prayers for cancer patients and caregivers

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