With illness we learn we are not immune. Nor are those we love. We learn our sense of invulnerability is an illusion. Illness is the great equalizer. We come to understand that life and death are intimately and ultimately connected.
Illness comes with a formidable invitation to notice the sacredness of life.
It is a wake up call to the preciousness. To place our lives in perspective to others, our universe. To accept the place we have in infinity and eternity. To do so we must find a rightful place for the suffering. A perspective that allows room for hope.