This is Love

Episode 41: Finding Joy

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In 2015, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. She was 35. “The chronic nature of what I had really lent itself to people wanting to openly explain why I was suffering. Was it something I ate? Was it something I did spiritually? Like, who’s at fault here? You know, maybe everything doesn’t happen for a reason.”

Today, she says, “One of the only things that really cuts through all the noise is surprising and ridiculous joy.”

She’s the author of Everything Happens For A Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved and No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear).

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