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Let me encourage you to take a few minutes to read Tony Snow's The Unexpected Blessings of Cancer.  As you read the article give praise for Bush's former Press Secretary's testimony and continue to remember his family and friends in prayer.  Below's an excerpt from the Christianity Today piece which sets the stage in the proper manner.  

[W]e shouldn't spend too much time trying to answer the why questions: Why me? Why must people suffer? Why can't someone else get sick? We can't answer such things, and the questions themselves often are designed more to express our anguish than to solicit an answer.

I don't know why I have cancer, and I don't much care. It is what it is—a plain and indisputable fact. Yet even while staring into a mirror darkly, great and stunning truths begin to take shape. Our maladies define a central feature of our existence: We are fallen. We are imperfect. Our bodies give out.

But despite this—because of it—God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. 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 face-to-face.

PS. Thank-you to Miller for passing along the article link.