Kate Bowler: People with chronic illness are not problems to be solved. We’re people to be loved.

Diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer, Kate Bowler realized her expectations for health and happiness were based on a lie. Bowler is a Duke Divinity School associate professor of the history of Christianity and the author of "Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved." Read more: washingtonpost.... Subscribe to The Washington Post on UA-cam: wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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[@alpinegirl]

"I think our culture makes us feel really embarrassed for the terrible things that happen to us. It makes us feel ashamed and lonely. And fundamentally like a loser.
"And I would love it if we had a culture that could embrace those of us that fall and give us a little more language and support to help us feel like we are not problems to be solved, we're just people to be loved."
- Kate Bowler

[@Freebirdshearth]

I have both kidney failure and heart failure. Thank you for speaking the truth in love.

[@abeerbagh6834]

Amazing woman, wife, and mom, i just finished reading your book “everything happens for a reason” and other lies i’ve loved. Inspiring woman through suffering and hard times ❤️

[@elizabethpatterson1776]

There is nothing more isolating than having too many issues. Having cancer is bad enough, try having cancer, having a child who had cancer, and having multiple autoimmune diseases that create daily challenges, all in one. People seem to think it is catching and are reluctant to ever get closer than an acquaintance. After decades of feeling like a pariah, and periodically having it out with God, I go back to square one, thankful for all the blessings I do have, and the fact that I am still here 41 years after I was expected not to recover from a serious illness. Is God good? Yes. Who can judge why he allows blessings or things that seem totally off base? The things we regard as blessings may not be, and the things we think are too hard and too cruel, may in fact actually be blessings. It is only in suffering that we can truly relate to Christ’s suffering, if only we give our suffering over to Him. In all things, be thankful, if for no other reason than He loves us with an everlasting love, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

[@amiami5727]

Good luck and god bless ☀️🤞🏻

[@lucysei805]

Thank you for sharing your journey and the need for kindness along the way.

[@aryavijaykumar4700]

Thank u all very much

[@TheMcKenzieHaus]

This was truly interesting. She speaks so much truth.

[@average_coverage]

What a beautiful mind.

[@nederhood9192]

So cheerful-looking; despite the situation of terminal...