The seven poems below, Just Pray I to VII, were written when several friends bravely faced battles with cancer . . .
Just Pray I
Lord, what devastating news
Of one well-loved and beautiful friend
Who faces a diagnosis barren of optimistic promise.
It’s not that I don’t believe in all You say―
I do most ardently so.
It’s just that the journey
from Normal Days
To Heavenly Ones
Passes through such painful, heart-wrenching terrain