Quote of the Day

"The supreme challenge to anyone facing catastrophic loss involves facing the darkness of the loss on one hand, and learning to live with renewed vitality and gratitude on the other. This challenge is met when we learn to take the loss into ourselves and to be enlarged by it, so that our capacity to live life well and to know God intimately increases. To escape the loss is far less healthy - and far less realistic, considering how devastating loss can be - than to grow from it. Loss can diminish us, but it can also expand us. It depends, once again, on the choices we make and the grace we receive. Loss can function as a catalyst to transform us. It can lead us to God, the only One who has the desire and the power to give us life." 

                         - Prof. Jerry Sittser in A Grace Disguised