This is a personal post – an update on what’s happening in my life.

Some may know that recently I was provisionally diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Today, I found out that there is evidence for the cancer in my lymph nodes and bones: pelvic, leg, spine, ribs etc..

Update(s): 23/2/2012 – I go onto hormone therapy in a few days time; the specialist has advised that this treatment should keep me ‘kicking’ for at least eighteen months to two years, God willing.

21/3/2012 – Biopsy results confirmed (high scores regarding severity) the earlier diagnosis of advanced prostate cancer. Hormone therapy is in progress - so far, everything is going well.

What happens next - is purely in God’s hands.

I give praise to my loving Lord and God that many aspects of my life have been blessed. I have enjoyed excellent health up-to-now; but, as many have experienced,  often bad things happen to people in this broken world. Sometimes people ask why is it, that bad things happen to good people? Yet, no one is good – and I know I’m not a ‘good’ person. I was a sinner who needed to be saved by God’s love on His cross. Once, we know Jesus and have invited Him into our heart as our Lord, then God’s Spirit constantly works to transform us into the likeness of Jesus – a process which is never completed this side of the grave.

In Mark 10:17-18 (NIV) we read:  ”As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life? Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good – except God alone.” … “

And, in John 3:12-18 (NIV), we hear these fantastic words from Jesus: “I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven – the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”

The words above, so well captured in John’s Gospel, are a good summary, of what I’ve been saying in a very clumsy way over the past few years – and, God willing – I will continue to say, for as long as possible.