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Be Not Afraid Beyond MedicineI know there will be very difficult times, but I want toturn more to my Heavenly Physician and trust in himthrough whatever lies ahead. He knows best how toheal. He has given me a very full life, and I’m content togive it over to him now.BronwenWhen Bronwen, forty-nine, wrote this letter to mywife, lumps were reappearing all over her body, andshe knew that nothing more could be done. After yearsof battling cancer, she was (in her words) “finished”with chemotherapy, and tired of waiting for the nexttest, the next scan. It wasn’t that she was tired of living.She was just ready to move beyond medicine.To anyone who knew how long Bronwen had foughtup till then, her attitude was easy to understand. Shewasn’t giving up – just acknowledging that her strugglehad now shifted to a different plane. And she did thisso matter-of-factly that no one was tempted to secondguessher. As she wrote in another letter a few dayslater, “I have a sense of peace about what lies ahead.You do what you can for as long as you can, but in theend, all that is left is prayer.”Sadly, we live in a culture where a decision likeBronwen’s is widely frowned on. Polls show that(at least in the United States), the vast majority of0