Talking to your kids about your cancer on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association

of Certified Biblical Counselors where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the

problems that people face. A painfully common problem that we experience in a fallen world is the

diagnosis of cancer. And that diagnosis can become even more painful when the diagnosis comes to a parent who needs to talk to

their children, particularly their young children about the problem.

On this edition of Truth and Love, we want to think through this issue with a special guest,

Tim Keeter.

Tim Keeter is a counselor who's certified with ACBC and he is an elder at Grace Community Church.

He also is a cancer survivor who walked through this very dilemma, receiving the diagnosis of sharing that diagnosis with his children.

And he spoke on this topic at one of ACBC's regional counseling and discipleship

trainings. On this edition, I want you to hear a portion of that testimony that he gave at that

ACBC event in New York, where he explains his diagnosis of cancer and the way he explained it to his kids. Here is Tim Keeter.

Last September, I went to a physical, and the doctor's feeling around the neck and he goes,

this feels kind of weird on the side of you're not going to send you for an ultrasound.

I'll admit my initial response was I was agitated that I would have to take yet some more time

off work to drive through the busiest portion of town and get an ultrasound.

But I did. And that happened a couple days later. The results came back pretty quickly.

And then I went to an ear, nose and throat specialist because it was in my thyroid, the left side of my thyroid.

It turns out there were two masses in my thyroid. The biopsy revealed that they indeed were cancerous. And in particular, one kind is a very rare form, a very rare form that if it gets loose, it's considered fairly intreatable. It's called a herthal cell. The other kind is papillary form. You learn these things, right? You don't want to spend too much time on WebMD, but you have to learn some of the words they're throwing around at you. And it's fairly common, and they're usually

pretty good at dealing with that particular kind of cancer. Of all cancers, to get thyroid

is one of the more successfully treated ones out there in general. The Hurthol, again, was a little

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