What's it gonna take?

Well, I'm back from the retreat and it was full of laughter (of course), prayer, being in the word, fellowship, bears, busted pipes...heehee...and eating! Of all the things that I felt like God was tugging at my heart, I thought I would share one.
There is a family at our church who had a daughter who was in her 30's. She had cancer for 6 years and died last week. This weekend I saw an interview that her and her husband did about 3-6 months ago. Wow...what she said touched me in the deepest part of my heart. She began to tell that the only way that she has survived is by the word of God. The word was true life for her. Medically she should have been dead years ago, but the word was her life. She was saying that she reall y couldn't live without being in the word everyday. I believe she truly felt that...that the word was her sustenance. There was such an intimacy in her eyes and her voice..she KNEW God and she walked with Him.
Her mom started telling us a couple of stories. Jessica had surgery on the cancerous tumor years ago and the doctors said that it was all gone, she was cancer free. Later that night or the next day she called her mom crying. Her mom asked what was wrong and she said, "my witness is gone." She had been able to witness to so many people while having cancer...her life was all about sharing Jesus with others...and now she was sad b/c it was gone. It came back. The family prayed for her to be healed and when she died they still had peace knowing that if God wanted to heal her, He could have. Well, Jessica's husband called her mom the other day and told her that he had been reading Jessica's journal. Secretly, over the past couple of months, she had been praying to God that He would take her. She was suffering so much, she was ready to go and be with Him. God was ready for her to be with Him. What an intimate relationship. She loved the Lord with everything, and He was her whole life. She loved Him, served Him, shared Him, knew Him...
What's it gonna take for us to get there?