The Aftermath
Photo Credit: Gregory Barnum (Creative Commons License) It has now been just over a year since I was told my cancer is in remission. However my family and I are still healing. There is an emotional and psychological impact to a trauma, such as dealing with a family member's battle with cancer, that continues to persist even when the trauma itself is apparently over. The photo above was taken in the city of New Orleans several months after the devastating hurricane Katrina struck in 2005. It is a fantastic visual metaphor of what I am wanting to say in this post - it takes a long time to deal with the debris of a catastrophic event, even when the event itself ended some time ago. Being Optimistic and Realistic A few months ago now my wife and I reached a point where my realism crashed into her optimism. It was painful and tearful. Since my remission she had been clinging on to her belief that God had healed me totally and completely. I fully believe that if God wants