Finding Victory Through Cancer

What is victory in cancer? How does one find it? In the same respect what is losing the battle? Is losing the battle when someone dies? Why is it when one dies, they have lost the battle? Victory is found in other ways it is not simply being found cancer free and losing the battle is dying from whatever cancer you may have. Many people have won the battle, but have died. And many have lost the battle and yet still live. Victory is not found in hearing the words “you are cancer free.” Nor is losing the battle be the day that the cancer consumes your body and takes you away.

Victory is found in one way, and only one way. Victory is never allowing the cancer to overcome you and take you away living or not. Victory is staying the same person you were when you didn’t have the cancer. When you find out you have cancer things change. Your way of thinking changes, and yes a part of you changes but you are still you; still the same person with the same heart, mind, and personality. You cannot let the cancer take that away or else you have already lost the battle. Victory is not allowing yourself to fall victim to feeling you are lost and limited in life, but still doing the things you loved, even if only for a few minutes.

Losing the battle is losing your faith and hope. Once you lose that what else do you really have? You have nothing therefore you have already lost the battle. If you allow yourself to fall into the darkness and the valley then you lost. Victory is finding yourself always on the mountain even when you feel at your lowest. And it is hard to stay on that mountain, a way to stay there is to never keep feelings and thoughts inside either talk about them to a friend, family, or pastor or even simply write them out. Better yet, do both talk and write. No matter what never keep things inside express them.

I not only had cancer, but watched someone I love dear slowly die from Prostate cancer. Though he died and I won, I was not the victorious one. Through his battle this man remained who he was. He praised God though he seemed to get worse. He remained making people feel special and playing with his grandchildren. When he got tired he slept wherever he was including his own backyard. Watching this man throughout his battle I saw true victory. I saw what it meant to really fight and find victory even though he died in September.

If a person dies from cancer and has still kept who they were, did the things they loved and remained on the mountain as much as they could, then they have been victorious over cancer. The battle wasn’t lost the moment they passed away. Victory isn’t being cancer free, but being depression free, being who you are despite having cancer. Victory is not allowing the cancer to control you or limit who you are or what you do. Victory through cancer is saying no matter what cancer will not defeat your spirit.