My freshman year in college my mother nearly died of a blood clot in her intestine.For better or worse I dealt with this by completely avoiding it. I stayed at college and didn't ask a lot of questions.
My sister Anna was at home, where the reality of the situation was unavoidable. Her junior year in high school she gave the following speech about it at a youth conference at our church. Her words were the most honest, truthful admission of the doubt and pain that plague the Christian experience (the God-man relationship) I have ever heard from someone so young and so dear to me.
She just told her story. I have listened to this recording many, many times and each time I'm floored by the amount of heartfelt truth and hard-earned wisdom it contains. Anna is an amazing young woman and we share some of the best and the worst aspects of our family's character - and I love that.
This doesn't even scratch the surface of Anna's depth of character, creativity, and awesomeness. But it's a beautiful piece of it. I encourage you to give it a listen.
that....was absolutely beautiful! you're sister is amazing
ReplyDeletethanks for posting this. it did finally download for me. this has been a good week for me to be reminded of this. vs
ReplyDeleteGosh--thanks so much for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteNo problem! I'll tell Anna you guys liked it.
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