DISABILITY AND A JOURNEY TOWARD MEANING

On March 4^th 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