Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Living Without Fanfare

Rod Dreher documents his sister's Stage 4 cancer diagnosis with beautiful parallels to Lent and suffering:

"I'm the one who has read all the books about God, and written at length about how we all ought to live to be faithful to His truth. But she's the one who has been living more fully in Him, without making the least fuss. Now, when she might be taken from us, and taken from us soon, many of us - not least her own brother -- is waking up to what she has always known, and lived without fanfare."

Read more This Bright Sadness.
Posted by Meredith at 11:24 AM
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2 comments:

  1. Thank you for sharing this, Meredith. It's so powerful!
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  2. Dreher's book Four Witnesses was the best non-fiction book I read last year. I absolutely loved it and I plan to re-read it this year and I rarely re-read books.

    Thank you for sharing this link.
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