"Blessings arrive in unexpected packages -- in my case, cancer," writes White House Press Secretary Tony Snow in the July issue of Christianity Today.Snow, who discovered in March that his colon cancer had recurred and spread to his liver, said his life-threatening setback is also life-affirming. It has strengthened his faith and brought clarity to his life.
"We don't know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator," says the 51-year-old.
Snow has been receiving aggressive chemotherapy. His hair is getting thinner and whiter. His energy is waning. Still he keeps on going. He wouldn't have it any other way.
"We want lives of simple, predictable ease -- smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see -- but God likes to go off-road," Snow writes. "He provokes us with twists and turns. He places us in predicaments that seem to defy our endurance and comprehension -- and yet don't. By his love and grace, we persevere."
1. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-bush-snow.html
Posted at 12:12PM on Aug 20th 2007 by Gregory D. Pawelski