Emphasis Preaching Journal

James knew his death was not going to be an easy one. AIDS claimed its victims in slow, agonizing increments. Yet it wasn't death James feared, nor even so much the process of dying. Rather, it was telling his family about the illness that was almost more than he could face. He knew if it was any other fatal disease, his family would walk with him through it, to the end, easing his journey. But this was AIDS, a disease with a stigma. True, there were many ways in which it could be contracted.