Author Description

Is cancer a death sentence? Or does it open your eyes to a more meaningful life! Explore with the author, Alice Seidel, teachings found nowhere but in the throes of suffering. One day you are flying high with all your hopes and dreams, the next those aspirations mean nothing at all. With all its highs and lows, its lofty expectations laying you flat, literally, there was a teaching in the very heart of this life-threatening illness the author has never found elsewhere.No one can prepare you for all that lies ahead as you traverse your own valley of the shadow of death -- you will travel alone. Or so you think.Believe me, you are not alone. In this book, you'll learn to: Explore the beautiful season of AdventLet the author show you how to discover joy even in sufferingSee Advent as a time of waiting - just as living with cancer can beNever believe you suffer aloneAs a lifelong Catholic, let the author take you on this trip as she recalls for you her journey and her struggle with bladder cancer. All it taught her, all she 'saw' for the first time that has opened her eyes to the glories found in her faith. There is a surrender in struggle - an embracing of a new life and of a new way of living. Our Lord and His Mother are along for the trip, in that glorious season of Advent, a most favorite season of all.