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Preface

By Carson Pue

This book is a journal written by the inspiring Brenda Pue throughout her living with cancer. It is filled with courage, faith, humour, love and specific requests for prayer in her time of illness. Her words have encouraged not only those closest to her but tens of thousands around the world.

Brenda is one of the authentic ones, the real thing. I only wish you could know and hear her voice so the tone of faith, love and laughter might be heard in her written words.

This is Brenda’s book. You will find a few guest entries at the beginning as we share what led up to her starting to journal her journey. The book closes with a glimpse of her legacy as our children tell of “Mom’s” journey from their perspective. Once in a while Brenda would ask family to do an update when she was simply unable.

Amongst Brenda’s many talents she was an editor, having edited at least six published books that I know of. So I struggled with whether to edit her entries and decided to leave them untouched with the exception of obvious mistakes or a missing word or context. In these instances, we have used [square brackets] to indicate to you the reader that these have been added for clarification.

My role now is to share with you how this all started and give the backdrop to her writing, so let us begin what is a heartening, raise your spirits, uplifting story of life with cancer.