more on Hope
a very moving article is in this Sunday’s NYTimes- How Cancer Changes Hope
It’s written by Kate Bowler, who was recently diagnosed with metastatic cancer. She is 35 yrs old.
Most apropos to this blog is this paragraph:
“I was confident that hope had its uses, but I began to think of it as a kind of arsenic that needed to be carefully administered. As far as I was concerned, it poisoned the sacred work of living in the present: taking my medication, asking about a friend’s terrible boyfriend and counting my son’s eyelashes as he slept in my arms. I wanted to be alive until I was not.”
It’s a piece worth reading in its entirety.
She has also written a book: Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved
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