This year, like no other, has forced me to think about what truly matters: my faith, my family, my friends, and my frailty.

Nothing reminds you of your mortality like a cancer diagnosis. Back in January, days before I traveled to Liberty University to speak to over 15,000 students about how every human life has a God-given purpose, I was faced with questioning if my own purpose had run its course.

I’m a husband and a father. My beautiful wife, Bethany, and my four kiddos are my motivation and inspiration. My first tears, as I read the results of my completely unexpected diagnosis, were for each of them. Indeed, God had more for me. I was too young (admittedly younger in my mind than in reality). I’m not alone in this all-too-common struggle among men.

Each year, 299,010 men find out they have prostate cancer in the United States. The National Cancer Institute reports that 13% of men will receive a prostate cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. To compare, there are 42,780 deaths estimated for breast cancer in 2024. There are 35,250 estimated deaths from prostate cancer this year. I praise God that I wasn’t one of those tragic statistics.

This form of cancer is very treatable, depending on the stage. I was Stage 2 with an asterisk. I had a higher risk because lab results showed multiple instances of probable perineurial invasion. That refers to the........

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