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Illness and Morality
It may go without saying that illness is amoral, but the reality is that we often – consciously or subconsciously – tie morality to illness. Illness is often experienced as a spiritual punishment. I’ve been asked far too many times why would God ‘do this to me’, or ‘let this happen…
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How do we hold our suffering?
Yesterday at church a woman whose husband has just received a devastating cancer diagnosis said to me as she choked on her tears, “Why would God be so cruel to us by punishing us in this way?” Though a common enough belief that God indeed works in this manner, the…
Never Fearing Wild Things 