One of the gifts of cancer is the challenge, the challenge to live within new limitations, to have our lives renewed at the very moment we are dis-eased. . . .
Harry Houdini, the great escape artist, used to say, "The smaller the box, the greater the escape."
I'm learning what it is like to have part of my body burned out to make room for the spirit to grow.
— John Robert McFarland, Now That I Have Cancer I Am Whole