No posts from Kara & Company over the weekend, and I was holding my breath. Kara Tippetts is one of the loveliest women I’ve never met. She is a Christ-follower, pastor’s wife, mom of 4, writer, and amazing sister and friend. How I know her is through the cancer she battles, through her faith, and through her writing…this is how I know her and how I love her.
Today, exhaling, a post came up on her Facebook page. She was writing about a friend, Jay Lyons, who was producing a documentary about her journey through cancer. She linked to the documentary as will I.
In the documentary, she talks about having to leave the party early.
[Sidebar: I write about sad things sometimes. Don’t leave the party early yourselves, dear readers. Her life is so rich, so real; I want you to know Kara. So hang in there with me. Her journey right now is so much more than sad; she has so much to teach us about life…don’t miss it.]
Kara says, “I know I’ve got cancer. I know I’m going to die of it, but I also know I have today, and so in this today, I get to live well.”
She talks about her husband, Jason. “Jason shows me the best of what life has to offer mostly in encouraging me to fight for a soft heart.”
Finally, she talks about the cancer and her Father, God: “I want to be able to share this story, that suffering isn’t a mistake and isn’t the absence of God’s goodness, because He’s present in pain.”
When Kara talks, those who doubt the goodness of God have no place to speak into her experience. She trusts God for today.
Pray for Kara and Jason today. Pray for a soft heart…for her, for them…for all of us.
Kara Tippetts Blog – Mundane Faithfulness
Dying with Grace – By Faith Magazine Interview with Kara
Kara Tippetts Documentary Trailer
Documentary Indiegogo Project Funding
Photo Credits – Kara & Jason Before Chemo and Kara & Jason After
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