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Be Not Afraid Anticipationfrom those around her. There was much she wanted toaccomplish. One project involved sorting through herpoetry collection, which contained several pieces shehad written, and deciding who should get each piece.Her brother Justin, who helped her, says she did this insuch a carefree, light-hearted manner that it perplexedhim. She noticed, and the next morning, saying thatshe did not want to add to his pain, she apologizedfor talking to him about her death. But in retrospect,as with Winifred, Rilla’s willingness to look the futurein the face was a help to those who mourned her. Thecourage that had emanated from her in life becamesomething for them to hold on to after she was gone.Lynn was diagnosed with leukemia in 1979, justafter her sixth child was born. At first, chemotherapyand radiation put her cancer into remission; then itreturned. A second round of treatments, too, slowedthe disease and fed hopes for a recovery. But it wasn’tto be. Soon her leukemia was flaring a third time.Specialists urged Lynn to consider experimentaltreatment, but once she found out that it would meantraveling to a faraway hospital, she decided to forgo thetreatment. Besides, as her husband James later put it,they both felt that God held their family in his hand,and they wanted to entrust the future to him alone.6