When Your Doctor Says, It’s Cancer

About the Book

This book is a memoir on how the author copes and masters the art of living fully while being stricken with cancer and aiming at breaking the cycle of fear—choosing the right choices, understanding the divine connection, and recognizing it’s not the end but can be a start of new life where spiritual growth and renewal in the midst of struggle are possible. The author advises where to invest our minds and hearts in and to believe there’s a will and grace more powerful than all human cares, minds, and hands can possibly do.

About the Author

J. P. Lansmart Jr. is the Reverend Jose “Paddy” Padilla Jr, a minister of the United Methodist Church. The author is both a graduate of the University of the East in Manila and Wesley Divinity School in the Philippines with degrees in Liberal Arts and Sciences and a Master of Divinity, respectively. In 1974, he emigrated to the United States after short stint as a newspaper reporter in Manila. Before that, the author was a leading salesman in insurance, real estate, and financial services. As a pastor, he served three Methodist churches, two in the Philippines, and lastly before he retired, six years at The Fountain of Living Water UMC in La Palma, Ca,,California, The author wants to be known as a “messenger of God's Grace.” He is very vocal in proclaiming the gospel and preaching that the poor and the sick are not alone in their struggles. Now retired, he regularly visits the Philippines and other places for missionary works. He writes in his spare time. His wife, Doree, and their two sons: Ian (and his wife Joy), and Bryan, as well as his three granddaughters: Kayla, Jordan, and Ava, are constant source of inspiration and joy to him. They all live in California.