FaithWhat Happens After You Die: Forty Years at the Bedside
I have been asked this question more than any other, and I am the last person who will pretend to know the answer.
Tom Whitaker writes about prayer, doubt, meaning, and the spiritual questions that arrive in your sixties and refuse to leave.
FaithI have been asked this question more than any other, and I am the last person who will pretend to know the answer.
FaithThe question people carry into the last rooms is not about heaven. It's about whether any of it mattered.
FaithIt stopped being about the other person a long time ago. You just hadn't noticed yet.
FaithYou kept showing up. You kept asking. And the thing you asked for didn't happen.
FaithThe questions that arrive in your sixties are not a sign of weakness. They are evidence that you have been paying attention.
FaithForty years of sitting at bedsides, and here is what I actually learned.