Emphasis Preaching Journal

In Reynolds Price's book, A Whole New Life, he tells the story of his struggles with cancer of the spine. The discovery of the cancer, the surgery, the chemotherapy, the difficulties with the doctors, the fear, the pain is all told with acute detail. One of the impressions that meets the fortunate reader of this book is that God rarely comes to us in crisis as we would have God come, as gentle shepherd or loving mother. No, God comes in fierce dreams and in demands exacting all from God's children which we have to give.