By Dana Haight Cattani DANA HAIGHT CATTANI was diagnosed with uterine cancer in April 2012. She lives with her family in Indiana. How impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story.1 —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie When the sacrament meeting speaker began telling a story about a young mother who had …
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Job’s Comforters
By Dana Haight Cattani Dana Haight Cattani was diagnosed with uterine cancer in April 2012. She lives with her family in Indiana. Or download the audio file here: Job’s Comforters A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver. Proverbs 25:11 Succor the weak, lift up the hands which …
The Broken Chord
By Dana Haight Cattani I’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don’t really care for music, do ya? It goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah —Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah” Today …
The Broken Chord
By Dana Haight Cattani I’ve heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don’t really care for music, do ya? It goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah —Leonard Cohen “Hallelujah” Today I …
The Stubborn Ounces of My Weight
By Dana Haight Cattani Or right-click here to download the audio file: The Stubborn Ounces of My Weight …But I am prejudiced beyond debate in favor of my right to choose which side shall feel the stubborn ounces of my weight. —Bonaro W. Overstreet THE TRIGGER MIGHT have been the cancer center …
Rachel, Not Comforted
By Dana Haight Cattani “But on the whole his life ran its course as he believed life should do: easily, pleasantly, and decorously.” —The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy1 From beneath her fashionable blonde wig, Darla introduced herself to my gynecologic cancer support group. A first-timer, she listed a few descriptors—grandmother, business owner, widow …
The Good Patient
By Dana Haight Cattani Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Anonymous To obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:22 I CANNOT COUNT the number of needle pricks I have had in the past two years. Since my cancer diagnosis, …
His Eye Is on the Sparrow
By Dana Haight Cattani I HEAR THE telltale thump. Walking to the window, I confirm what I already suspect. In spite of our decals and shiny reflector tape, another sparrow has flown into one of the panes along the back side of our house and fallen to the deck below. In vain, I watch the …
The Eleven Percent Solution
By Dana Haight Cattani Two years ago in the Midwestern college town where I live, religious leaders from several local congregations joined with civic and governmental partners to create an interfaith winter homeless shelter. Their goal was simple but ambitious: offer a warm and safe place for homeless individuals to sleep during the coldest …
Choice and Accountability
By Dana Haight Cattani Children are an heritage of the Lord . . . Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. —Psalms 127:3, 5 My friend Leah1 recently turned 30 and a few weeks later gave birth to her fourth child—an unexpected bundle of joy. Her eldest is six. The children …