Our family plays in creeks. Other families have leisure pastimes like biking or camping or playing softball. My kids have grown up playing in creeks, I played in creeks and even my dad played in creeks. We have a creek-playing season, and we even have creek shoes. You can’t go out and buy creek shoes; they have to be the too-small pair of tennis shoes from last summer with your toe poking out of the top to really qualify.

Dear God, Place your mighty hand on my medical team. Let them seek your way and your wisdom in all things regarding the people they treat.

Hear Sharon’s strength in the face of both her breast and stomach cancer, and soak up Don and Sharon’s faith as they cope with Don’s prostate cancer diagnosis and recurrence.

“When we admit to God that it feels out of control, it really strengthens their faith. We show them its okay: They can have their doubts and fears. The best thing to do is take their fears to God. They’re going to take their questions someplace. Why not take them to God?”

Join Karen Tripp as she discusses ways to cope with a cancer recurrence.

A cancer walk is the type of struggle that can reveal new things about Jesus you’d never seen before. On the day before cancer came into your life, you probably understood that Jesus was your Savior, your Protector and your Comforter. Yet, sometimes your faith can jump from understanding who Jesus is to knowing who Jesus is.