NO FEAR TODAY!! Get rid of 'Cancer Face'!

My husband likes to tell people, “Don’t come at me with ‘cancer face’.” ‘Cancer face’ is that long sad face, like the face on the puppy dog canisters begging for money for an animal shelter. Having cancer face is when your mouth says, “How is she?” but your face and your eyes say, “You poor, poor thing. She’s dying, isn’t she.”

Our family avoids both this attitude and the people who carry it. Fear is not our friend. Fear lies. Fear does not tell the truth. Fear does not promote healing. Fear on people’s faces says, “You don’t have long. Maybe you want to pack it in now.”

Peace, Joy, and the expectation of Life lift everybody, the patient and the family. And when we are lifted, hope rises up inside of us, and hope calls healing to us. Hope relieves our pain, hope gives us something to look forward to, hope fills our day with possibilities. A little bit of hope makes all the difference.

You wouldn’t want to steal possibilities from a person fighting cancer, would you? Banish ‘cancer face’ from your expressions. Don’t let it in. Treat it like the thief that it is. You can let someone know that you love them with a hug and a smile.