I know a 15 year-old boy who is dying of cancer. The doctors have tried everything they could but they could not help him to conquer this disease. He came to Sarawak General Hospital for treatment when the cancer has already spread from his bone to his lungs and it really was too late. The malignant growth in his leg has been removed surgically but the lung cancer was just not responsive to the chemotherapy he was given. Now it has spread all over his lungs and spine. Tommorow he is going back to his home in Sabah, knowing that he does not have long to live.

How does one talk to a person who knows he is dying soon?

I wanted to see him today, to take him and his mother to a nice place for a meal. But on my way to fetch him and his mother, I got a call from his mother saying that he has a headache and wanted to rest instead. I really hope to see him again tomorow before he leaves for Sabah because I do not know if I will get to see him again. He is a wonderful chap who has been brave in going through all the treatments at SGH and who has really hoped for a cure until last week when he was told that nothing else can be done for him. Cancer has triumphed again - how sad! If only he was diagnosed earlier and treated earlier !!!!

Months ago I have shared with him that he can have eternal life by accepting Jesus as his Saviour and Lord. But because he was hearing this for the first time in his life, he was not sure how to respond to this good news. I hope he has read more of God's love for him in the Bible I gave him and that in his own way, he has opened his heart to God but I do not know and I hope I can find out tomorrow. May God use me to encourage him to let God into his life and become a child of God. May God give him the faith to believe he can have eternal life through Christ Jesus! O, Lord, please have mercy!!!