Tony Snow Ping
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Posted on 07/20/2007 9:10:35 AM PDT by Between the Lines
Blessings arrive in unexpected packages—in my case, cancer.
Those of us with potentially fatal diseases—and there are millions in America today—find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality while trying to fathom God's will. Although it would be the height of presumption to declare with confidence What It All Means, Scripture provides powerful hints and consolations.
The first is that we shouldn't spend too much time trying to answer the why questions: Why me? Why must people suffer? Why can't someone else get sick? We can't answer such things, and the questions themselves often are designed more to express our anguish than to solicit an answer.
I don't know why I have cancer, and I don't much care. It is what it is—a plain and indisputable fact. Yet even while staring into a mirror darkly, great and stunning truths begin to take shape. Our maladies define a central feature of our existence: We are fallen. We are imperfect. Our bodies give out.
But despite this—because of it—God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don't know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face.
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bttt
Very touching!
Thanks BTL for posting this. IMO those with terminal diseases/maladies are blessed by knowing in advance from which direction “the bullet with their name on it” will come from. They and their families can redeem the time that remains.
Thanks for posting, BTL. Tony’s words touched me deeply, (as I dry my eyes).
Thanks for the *PING* dinasour!
Lovely piece by a lovely man.
What a wonderful president he would make!!!
Despite some of our recent differences, that is inescapable.
Blessings Tony.
ah, I do so love Tony Snow. He has such a way with words!
We've had differences?
It's just that some of us know the "how" and "when" in a little more detail than others.
"All things work to the good for those who love the Lord". Paul to the Romans (Ch 8, I think).
Prayers for Tony and all coping with terminal illness.
Thank God for Tony Snow!
Thanks so very much for the ping.
Great post BtL.
May God bless you Tony.
Between many of us on FR and Tony vis a vis immigration.
***It is hard to describe, but there are times when suddenly the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: Others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up—to speak of us!***
President Bush has often said that he can FEEL the prayers of other people. Tony does, too. PRAY, PRAY, PRAY for them.
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