Lily Isaacs shared the incredible journey of her life with BreatheCast as expressed in her memoir 'You Don't Cry Out Loud'. This is the final piece of three parts we wrote on her, and this will focus on dealing with breast cancer and the emotional toll it takes.

Monday we wrote about Isaac's childhood which was once removed from the Holocaust and her signing of a record deal to Columbia Records at a young age. Read about it here. Tuesday we covered her conversion from Judaism to Christianity. Read about that here.

1983 began perhaps the biggest trial of Lily's story. She suffered from scoliosis, which is a curvature of the spine, since she was a teen. All those years with back trouble, coupled together with her close pregnancies, and years of not taking proper precautions began to make her pain unbearable. She needed an extensive surgery to correct it.

After two different surgeries, and just six weeks after recovery, she discovered a lump in her breast. This lump turned out to be cancerous, and she had to have a mastectomy to ensure it would not get worse. The surgery worked, but it did something much more damaging to Lily, it destroyed her emotionally as she now had a deformity because of the amputation.

More than her physical healing, it was the emotional trauma that took more time to heal. Admittedly, Lily said she is not fully healed from it.

"I feel like it takes time. This has been 30 years ago for me, and I am still not completely over it." The back and breast cancer's physical effects still show even though she has no pain. Despite having had reconstruction surgery she still knows it in her head, which is the hardest part.

"Emotionally you might not get over it, but you learn to live with it." The book has helped her to get past some of it. "Knowing that this life is just temporary. These bodies that we live in today are not permanent bodies. When we go to heaven and meet the Lord we'll have a new body, and all these imperfections we have on Earth we go away.

The next portion of Lily's story is one of success. The '90s saw Lily, her now ex-husband Joe, and their children take off as the Isaacs. They sang all over the country with the Gaithers, and performed on television and large events. Along the way they have picked up Dove Awards and a Grammy nomination. She said she could probably write another book about the great things in the '90s and 2000s, but focused more on her life and emotional things.

There are a few things left Lily wishes to accomplish in her musical career. "I would love to see my kids do the National Anthem in a government or National TV," she said and also "Would love to be able to minister more to the Jewish people." Lily hopes through the book she can do that and also record an album of Yiddish lullabies.

Lastly, she has aspirations to go to Poland and research about her family and look at some places. "We're up to whatever God has planned for us."

Finally when asked why people should have hope and faith, Lily said: "There's nothing you can't do if you lean on God. You can survive a bad childhood, cancer, rejection, divorce."

Lily said to persevere and have a lot of hope and faith in God. "I'm still here and I'm still strong in the Lord. Nothing is impossible."

Lily wants everyone to go to http://www.theisaacs.com/ to keep up with her and her singing family as they keep ministering with music everywhere they go.

Read our book review here.