The Seattle Journal 5

Byron LeavittDarkness, Healing, Light, Suffering, Wonder Leave a Comment

(This is part five of a series. You can read part one here, two here, three here, four here, and the book that started it here.) While I was in bed with mouth sores, Sarah was one floor up in the hospital’s little family room ministering to families.  She met Matthew and learned about his sister.  She met Barb, and …

The Seattle Journal

Byron LeavittDarkness, Healing, Light, Suffering, Wonder Leave a Comment

At the beginning of 2014 I was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma.  Near the end of January I started chemo therapy, and four months later the cancer was completely gone.  However, about four months after that it was back.  And that’s where this story begins. (To read more about those initial months, though, be sure to check out my …

Going Home

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World-weary and travel-worn, we turned our dusty black sedan down the long gravel driveway.  At the end ahead of us, waiting, was an old, Swiss-style house, all peaks and doors and sweeping curves and decks.  Parking on the slab of concrete, we turned off the car and climbed into the dusky air.  One of the two French double doors opened …