On March 4th 2017, I will be in Madison Wisconsin as one of a
number of speakers to a one day symposium entitled DIGNITY AT THE END OF LIFE:
From Suffering To Hope. This one day event for medical professionals is
sponsored by the Pro-Life Healthcare Alliance and the . The date is getting close so For more information and
registration click here https://www.humanlife.org/product/dignity-life/
My session is entitled JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF OF DISEASE TOWARD MEANING:
A CASE STUDY. I want to lay out some pertinent points in my 33 year experience
with incurable disease and adult onset disability that came in the form of
multiple sclerosis. I will chronicle the course of the degenerative physical
disease and accompanying emotional and spiritual consequences. I will explain
some helpful and unhelpful things health care professional did, or did not do. 
And I want to explain how my journey toward meaning involved a redefining of
self and self-image; a discovering or rediscovering of significance -- not only
in myself, but also my family, my community, but most importantly in my
relationship with Christ and Him to me. And finally I will tell of a new ever progressing
and evolving understanding of meaning and a clearer sense of purpose
in my life to which degenerative disease and disability helped me see more
clearly.
Hope to see you there. -- Mark
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