They become entombed in the illness focusing their every thought around death and sickness or they use their illness as an awakening of life. In the short story “Love Bade Me Welcome,” the author, Christian Wiman, is faced with life-altering news. He has a deadly, incurable disease. Through his diagnosis, his wife and him find renewed spirit of God through church and he realizes that without his suffering he would most likely not have found his life. “I would qualify Weil’s statement somewhat, then, by saying that reality, be it of this world or another, is not something one finds and then retains for good. It must be newly discovered daily, and newly lost.” (Love Bade Me Welcome. Page 244) Wiman does not find true life one day and expect that to overcome all of his problems forever, he is constantly searching for God and love every
They become entombed in the illness focusing their every thought around death and sickness or they use their illness as an awakening of life. In the short story “Love Bade Me Welcome,” the author, Christian Wiman, is faced with life-altering news. He has a deadly, incurable disease. Through his diagnosis, his wife and him find renewed spirit of God through church and he realizes that without his suffering he would most likely not have found his life. “I would qualify Weil’s statement somewhat, then, by saying that reality, be it of this world or another, is not something one finds and then retains for good. It must be newly discovered daily, and newly lost.” (Love Bade Me Welcome. Page 244) Wiman does not find true life one day and expect that to overcome all of his problems forever, he is constantly searching for God and love every