“I hate pancreatic cancer,” he says on the podcast. “I would never wish it on anyone, but I would never want to go back to a time in my life where I didn’t know the prayer of pancreatic cancer.”
The prayer of pancreatic cancer. The prayer of a difficult birth. The prayer of a marriage broken. The prayer of losing the person who knew you longest.
That’s the winnowing. The long moments of clarifying prayer.
What does it take for us to actually see our life, as it is, while we’re still in it?
CLARIFYING GUSTS – by John Sarvay