Facing Cancer with Humor and Hope (with Amy Low)

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🗓️ 28 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

How do we make sense of the world when we know our time is limited? Host Curtis Chang talks about this universal question with Amy Low, whose recent memoir The Brave In Between: Notes from the Last Room chronicles the lessons learned from her now five-year-long journey with a terminal cancer diagnosis. Together, they unpack Amy's powerful reminder that "the worst thing in life is not the last thing," offering hopeful insights into what it means to face suffering well. Their conversation delves into how to care for oneself and loved ones even when the future is uncertain… and how even to laugh amidst the hard things of life.

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Referenced in this Episode

Read More about Chadwick Boseman and “What to Know About Colon Cancer”
Frederick Buechner’s book: Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale
Read Frederick Buechner’s thoughts on GRACE

Explore Amy Low’s work:

Read Amy’s Book: The Brave In-Between: Notes from the Last Room
Check out Amy’s substack: Postcards From the Mountain
Learn more about The Emerson Collective

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0:00.0	Listeners, I am about to utter two words I love to say and only occasionally get to say.
0:07.0	Ready, here it is.
0:10.0	We're hiring.
0:12.0	We're hiring, and maybe one of you is the next member of my Redeeming-Babbel team.
0:18.0	Redeeming-Babbel is looking for a marketing manager.
0:21.6	We're looking for someone who shares our vision and values and
0:25.6	has proven experience in digital content marketing. If you or someone you know
0:31.7	could be a fit has that expertise in digital content marketing
0:35.7	and wants to help us reach more thoughtful and curious followers of Jesus, check out the
0:41.1	link in our show notes. We're willing to customize the job, even
0:45.1	whether it's full or part-time for the right person. So very soon I would love
0:51.0	to be able to say, perhaps to one of you listening another of my favorite
0:55.8	phrases which is welcome to the team. And Welcome to the Good Faith Podcast, I'm your host, Curtis Chang. And the Good Faith
1:25.4	podcast is a production of Redeeming Babble. And it's where friends who
1:29.8	follow Jesus help each other make sense of the world.
1:34.4	And an inescapable reality about our journey
1:37.6	through this world is that one day, for all of us,
1:41.7	this journey will end. We will die. We all face mortality. How then do we make
1:48.1	sense of our life in this world given that final destination that awaits us all. And this means that one of our great gifts we can get is a person,
1:59.4	individual who is already living in that last stage of life and has the wherewithal and wisdom to share guidance to the rest of us from that last place.
2:11.0	When we encounter someone who is facing death and who is also willing to
2:15.2	share notes with the rest of us from that place, well we would be very smart to
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