How did Peter handle having a terminal illness?
Life gets boiled down to what’s really important in the face of dying, and for Peter it was his relationship with Jesus. From the onset, Pete wanted to do God’s will and recognized God’s will for him seemed to be dying. Without bitterness or anger, Peter sought to follow God. His doctor made it very clear that there was little or no hope when he got in Pete’s face and emphatically stated, “You have to understand what you have is bad—very, very, very bad.” Peter didn’t respond to the devastating news until we got home. He leaned against the living room doorjamb and said with great sadness, “Mom, what do I do? I don’t know how to die. I’ve never done it before.” So Pete did the only thing he knew to do, he fought the cancer with all he had, opening and closing the chemo room while other patients came and went. Still, Peter spoke of not wanting to fight God. His illness forced him to drop out of college that spring. That was an especially difficult blow to take. Pete had dreamed of return
