Spiritual Guide for Breast Cancer Survivors
by
Alexandra Fresch
Dear God, They Say It's Cancer: A Companion Guide for Women on the Breast Cancer Journey by Janet Thompson is a spiritual companion and guide for women with breast cancer. This book offers a mix of practical advice and personal stories as a source of information, comfort, and peace.
This is a heavily faith-based book, with daily Scripture and letters to and from God. Depending on the reader, this could be a strong positive or a strong negative. Thompson shares her own breast cancer story in letters to God and more. This book is a guide for the spiritual as well as the physical aspects of breast cancer, intended help women go beyond mere survival to "seek and find God's purpose" in their situation. It is very thorough, well put together, and provides answers to questions you didn’t even know you had.
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The detailed table of contents helps readers find just what they need for what they are experiencing on any given day. Each chapter includes blank spaces for journaling; stories from fellow breast cancer patients; lessons learned, helpful hints, and encouragement for the gritty aspects of breast cancer; and God's Love Letter to You, a paraphrased passage from Scripture for the reader to personalize.
The appendices provide valuable resources such as Web sites, recommended reading, a breast cancer journey map, and worksheets for decision-making and recording questions, doctor's appointments, medications, and contact information.
Dear God, They Say It’s Cancer is a must for any Christian woman facing breast cancer. But anyone searching for reasons to hope—whether patient, relative, partner, or friend—can benefit from this book.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Publish date: October 10, 2006
400 pages
ISBN-10: 1582295751
ISBN-13: 978-1582295756
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