She rightfully rants about her problem with the phrase used when someone dies of cancer, that he or she “lost the fight.” “Lost?” she replies vehemently. This is not about “failure” as the world tends to see it. How can anyone “lose,” fighting something as insidious as a disease, something so symptomatic of our fallen world? You might as well accuse someone of not dodging a bullet in time. From her strengthened identity in this God who works His grace even through cancer, she shows us that the ultimate coming home for those who believe in what this grace entails is far from “losing.” Lost,
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