Katie Hubbard had struggled through the final week of February 2015, but she surged into a new season of faith and hope in the face of cancer when March rolled around. She identifies the source of the change in her first journal entry for the month. The first was practical, or circumstantial. We rearranged our bedroom to make it beautiful and functional for her when she didn't have the energy to go anywhere but didn't want to stay in bed.

The second reason was deeper. She resolved to do the hard work of believing God. In the face of cancer, faith and hope are easy to let go of. It's easy to find faith foolish or too assume you're standing at the back of the line, nowhere close to receiving another display of God's favor. Katie shows some of the interior work that was going on in her mind and heart that leads to her final declaration for March 1: "I need to accept cancer and quit looking at it as ruining my life. I can have cancer and a good life. it doesn't have to go away in order for me to start living or even enjoy living. I just hav to do what I can around it."

"I can have cancer and a good life."