More Melanoma Musings and Thoughts on Floundering Faith

Mary Swan-Bell
5 min readApr 29, 2022

I have been struggling lately with several things. Grief, cancer, chronic pain to name a few, but the one that keeps circling in my head is faith, belief in God or some higher power.

Perhaps it’s muscle memory from my Catholic childhood, but when facing hardships, my first instinct is to pray…despite the ambiguous recipient. Maybe a few years of being “on fire for the…

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Mary Swan-Bell

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