This is one of the most powerful testimonies I’ve ever heard. Please stop whatever you are doing and take the time to watch this moving video.
Rachel, the 37 year old wife and mother of two is facing imminent death. She has weeks to live.
For Rachel, the essence of life is not in her illness, it is found in her relationship with God through Jesus. And that’s why Rachel is convinced that death is not dying.
On March 4, 2009, what started out as a small talk to a women’s group at her church grew into an event attended by 600 women from around Vancouver, giving Rachel an opportunity to share about her hope in the midst of terminal cancer. Click for audio.
“Cancer does not define me. Neither does being a wife or a mother. All these things are part of who I am but they do not define me. What defines me is my relationship with Jesus.” –Rachel Barkey
Those who encourage others will themselves be encouraged. Proverbs 11:25
Letters from Rachael
During the bouts of cancer diagnosis and treatments, Rachel writes e-mails to keep her friends and family updated on her thoughts and spiritual walk.
June 1, 2009 – I’m a big list person. I love lists. Making them. Crossing things off when I’m finished them. I have a daybook that sits by my telephone that holds my To Do list for each day and one of my greatest pleasures is looking back at the end of the day and seeing all my little [...]
April 20, 2009 – Dying is hard. I’m not sure what I thought it would be like but I think I hoped it would be easier than this. But, admittedly, I’m not that tough. First of all, I’ve never done it before and there’s no one around who’s done it before to ask how to do it well. You have to [...]
March 11, 2009 – It has been several weeks since I wrote with our news and I know many are wondering how we are doing. I am sorry that I have not written sooner. It is harder than I thought to write these notes. Last time around there was at least the rigour of treatment that made these updates [...]
January 21, 2009 – For those who have not yet heard, my cancer has returned. After being ill for a couple of weeks over Christmas with what I thought was a flu, I finally went in to the doctor and discovered, after 24 hours of lab-rat-ness, that the cancer has spread to my liver and bones. It is in over [...]
March 27, 2006 – Funnily enough, I’m a little shy about discussing the loss of my reproductive organs and menopause – don’t ask me why. You know more about my breasts than you should (or probably want to) and although I can chalk up some of my candor to being the daughter of a doctor, for some reason it [...]
