Concerning People, Laughter, Love and Faith

Make Sense of Life — and Keep Suffering in Perspective

When she was dying from cancer at the young age of 52, an interviewer asked Sr. Thea Bowman (1937-1990) how she made sense of suffering. She replied,

I don’t make sense of it. I try to make sense of life. I try to keep myself open to people and to laughter and to love and to have faith. I try each day to see God’s will.

A native of Jim Crow Mississippi, T…