That heaven isn’t a cheery add-on to a nice life, but it’s our real home, and this world is just one we’re “ strangers and pilgrims” in.Īnd in Kara’s situation, it was not “just” illness, suffering, and death that she had to wrestle with. We’re reminded that eternity is real, that l ife really is but a vapor, that Jesus provided a way for heaven, and not this world, to be our final home.
But someone’s death or dying turns the heart and mind turn to the eternal like perhaps no other situation. And just recently someone asked me if I knew of anything to help a woman she knows who is struggling to face her own cancer diagnosis, so I thought I’d read this and see if it would.Įcclesiastes 7:2 says, “It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.” Nothing wrong with feasting (God planned some into Israel’s calendar, Jesus attended a wedding feast), parties, joy. But it was too raw, too intense, too much (for me) to read every post.īut I got her book, The Hardest Peace: Expecting Grace in the Midst of Life’s Hard when it was on sale. I would look at the occasional post that someone linked to on Facebook or their blog. She came to national attention when, in the midst of her own battle, she wrote an open letter to Brittany Maynard, who was planning to employ physician-assisted suicide to avoid the downward spiral and suffering of a brain tumor, to beg her not to take that route, to promise that God would meet her in her suffering.
She passed away about a year ago and her blog now runs archives of her past posts. She was a young pastor’s wife and mom of four who blogged at Mundane Faithfulness, first as a mom blogger, but then sharing God’s grace in her diagnosis and battle against cancer. Some of you may know the name Kara Tippetts.
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