Courtney Doctor talks with Colleen Chao about how her faith has grown and flourished through living with a terminal cancer diagnosis. They discuss the difficulty of knowing she may not live to see her son grow up, what keeps her clinging to Jesus, and what excites her about the life to come. Colleen expounds a rich theology of suffering accompanied by contagious joy in the Lord. Resource Mentioned: She Laughs at the Time to Come (Colleen’s story) Related Resources: The Secret to Living Hope in the Face of Death How to Help When Cancer Strikes Your Church Experiencing God in Your Affliction Review: “Out of the Shadow World” by Colleen Chao Discussion Questions: 1. How do you practice “setting your mind on things above” amid ordinary life or in seasons of suffering? 2. What circumstances or experiences have made you more aware of your limitations? 3. How have you experienced the closeness of your Shepherd in dark or fearful seasons? In what specific ways has his nearness been your good? 4. What does it mean to think of suffering as something you’re “entrusted with”? How does that perspective shape the way you steward hard experiences? 5. As you think about eternity with God, what excites or comforts you most about the life to come? 6. What does it look like to entrust those we love most to God when the future feels uncertain? 7. What truths from God’s Word have most strengthened or steadied you in seasons of suffering?