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Be Not Afraid Fearpersonal situation. Looking at him, I suddenly realizedthat each of us needs such a moment.Around the same time, Matt sent me an e-mail inwhich he wrote:<strong>The</strong>re’s a passage in the Letter of James that is veryimportant to me right now. It talks about telling eachother your sins so that your prayers will be heard andanswered. Making sure that all of my sins are confessedand forgiven, and asking forgiveness of people whomI’ve hurt, has never been so important to me as it is rightnow…more important than physical healing. When yourneed for God outweighs your need to appear flawlessin front of the people around you, repentance becomessomething you long for, not dread. I experienced thisvery personally when I came home from the hospital.I knew it was literally a matter of life or death tostraighten out my relationship with God if I was going toget through my illness.In the days that followed Matt sent me numerous suche-mails, and I tried to answer him in return. One thingI told him was that having cancer means having one’spersonal power dismantled, and that perhaps God was1

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