Words to enrich your spirit
Bookworm on Jul 15 2008 at 8:40 pm | Filed under: Uplifting stories
The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well. Some cancer patients recover; some don’t. But the ordeal of facing your mortality and feeling your frailty sharpens your perspective about life. You appreciate little things more ferociously. You grasp the mystical power of love. You feel the gravitational pull of faith. And you realize you have received a unique gift – a field of vision others don’t have about the power of hope and the limits of fear; a firm set of convictions about what really matters and what does not. You also feel obliged to share these insights – the most important of which is this: There are things far worse than illness – for instance, soullessness.
(Originally published in the Jewish World Review.)
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Here is a link to a piece originally published in Christianity Today as Tony confronted his journey into the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
http://jungle-hut.blogspot.com/2008/07/when-you-enter-valley-of-shadow-of.html
It is a testament to his faith, to God’s grace, and to the enduring human spirit.