This Day Won't Come Again
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This Day Won't Come Again

Radical Presence and Life-Threatening Illness

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eBook - ePub

This Day Won't Come Again

Radical Presence and Life-Threatening Illness

About this book

For readers touched by Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air and anyone with a life-threatening illness seeking healing of body, mind, and spirit, a fellow patient shares her journey of choosing to have the best day of her life by working as though she will live and living every moment as though she might die.

Waking to the stunning realization she had cancer, Jocelyn Rasmussen’s first thought was that she needed a miracle. Her second thought was that she didn’t want to die with any unspent love or grace inside her. Guided by this principle, she entered treatment with faith that she could accept any outcome—from a complete remission to death.

As Rasmussen underwent chemotherapy and radiation, she plunged into the mysteries and certainties of life and death. All of creation, nature and humanity, became fodder for her reflections about healing, time, hope, dreaming, and loving. The deeper she went, the more she realized she was already living the miracle she’d asked for. It was being revealed in every sacred moment of her life—she simply hadn’t always recognized it. Life, she discovered, was radiant with the light of wisdom, the strong and gentle touch of caregiving, the gratitude for another breath, and the surprise of all that was arising.

Tender and uplifting, This Day Won’t Come Again will encourage you to trust your own radiance and allow it to guide you into the unique meaning and purpose that is yours to share as you navigate treatment or caregiving for life-threatening illness.

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Information

Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781647429393
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword by Dr. Akira Sugimoto
  8. Preface
  9. Healing
  10. The Collapse of Time
  11. Cardinal Matters
  12. Hope
  13. Abide with Me
  14. Generative Conversation
  15. Work
  16. Going for the Gold
  17. Celebration
  18. Dreaming
  19. The Lover
  20. Gravity
  21. The Poetry of Cancer
  22. Sources
  23. Acknowledgments
  24. About the Author