"Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved | Kate Bowler

There's a certain way to get that feeling back." But they gave me a little reassurance, and I kept it; they told me, "When those feelings disappear like seawater in a tidal phenomenon, they will leave a mark." And that just

happens

. And that is not evidence of anything, nor is it anything. Rather, it was just a gift. So I cannot respond to all the people who write to me with the book Five Steps to Perfect Health or the book “Magical Moments of the. feeling.” I see the world full of wonderful, miserable, picturesque and catastrophic events, but I cannot resolve the contradiction.

I began to believe that these two opposite things do not cancel each

other

out, and life is very difficult today. well. Cancer immun

other

apy seems to be working and we are following the disease. I hope to live long enough to embarrass my son. I see my husband losing his beautiful hair and I believe that I will live, but I am learning to live and love without telling. losses, without

reason

s, without assurances that you will not lose anything. Life will break your heart, and it may take away

everything

you have and

everything

you aspire to. But there is a type of "prosperity gospel" that I believe in.

I believe that in the darkness - even there - there will be beauty and there will be love. And from time to time you will feel satisfied. Thank you all. (applause)