We thank you for those in sickness who rise to the challenge by bravely fighting on, and who continue to live and grow and love and serve in spite of the pain and suffering.

We thank You for all who minister to and with cancer patients: for those who are instruments of Your healing grace -- the doctors, nurses, technicians, those involved in research and experimentation, and rabbis, priests, pastors, family, adn friends who are there with those who suffer -- all channels of Your healing love.

Finally, we thank You for institutrions and organizations that provide care -- whose purpose is to challenge all that "corrupts and destroys the creatures of God."

We thank You for the great work of the American Cancer Society, and we ask Your special blessings, Dear God, on its healing work.  Guide and empower our leaders, strengthen and give good success to its workers, and grant that all may know that it is Your healing work that they do; and that one day You will "wipe away every tear from our eyes and that there will be no more pain for the former things that will have passed away."

This prayer, O God, we ask in Your powerful name.