Where Are You, God?

My Wife Has Cancer

By Dr Michael Janse van Rensburg

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Where Are You, God? — hardcover edition

Print ISBN 978-1-0483-0579-1 eBook ISBN 978-1-0483-0580-7

Published June 2026 Free Reading Guide

Where Are You, God? My Wife Has Cancer is not a book written from the safety of hindsight. It is a memoir written in the middle of uncertainty — during hospital visits, difficult conversations, moments of anger, fragile hope, and the quiet exhaustion of watching someone you love suffer. When Michael’s wife, Lynn, is diagnosed with cancer, the questions that follow are not abstract theological questions, but deeply human ones: Where is God when prayer feels unanswered? What happens to faith when fear becomes part of daily life? And how does a family continue loving each other through the unknown?

Written with honesty, restraint and emotional clarity, the book moves between reflections on marriage, fatherhood, faith and grief, while never losing sight of the ordinary moments that continue even in crisis. Rather than offering easy answers or polished inspiration, the memoir invites readers into the tension of living without certainty, and the emotional exhaustion of continuing to love each other while living without certainty.

At its heart, Where Are You, God? is a story about love that refuses to disappear in the presence of suffering. It is for readers who have wrestled with doubt, sat beside hospital beds, carried questions they could not resolve, or simply tried to hold onto hope when life no longer made sense.

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