the absence of god

You'd think seeing something as lovely as this, I might go some on God's existence, but not today.

A friend who lives just down the road from me sent me an e-mail this morning. She told me that the breast cancer that she's been fighting for the past 18 months with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and Herceptin (a targeted hormone therapy) has all failed and she has secondary cancer. She said that she had been looking forward to the birth of her first grandchild this July and that she was fighting to hang on for that. Sometimes life really sucks. It's freaking me out because I have a check-up tomorrow and I live in dread of hearing the same words that my friend heard.