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Dancing to my death with the love called cancer
O'Leary, Daniel

Dancing to my death with the love called cancer

Garratt Publishing (2019)
9781782183624
| Paperback
210 pages | Australia
Dewey 248.86 OLE
LC Classification RC265.5 .O44 2019

Subject

  • Cancer - Patients - Biography
  • Cancer - Religious aspects
  • Death - Religious Aspects
  • Suffering - Religious Aspects

Plot

In the summer of 2018 Daniel O'Leary received the news that we all dread - a cancer diagnosis. As a priest, teacher, bestselling author and retreat facilitator, it was a natural instinct for Daniel to journal his thoughts and feelings during his illness. Completed just before his death in January 2019, this book is an incredibly raw and courageous account. It pulls no punches in terms of Daniel's struggles to cope with his diagnosis, the challenges of cancer treatment and the emotional roller coaster of facing his own death. The book reveals a soul in chaos. It has the extremes of a kite in a storm - it sweeps between hope and despair, throws cartwheels and steadies out, crashes with fear and continues with raw and real courage. During his final months Daniel found a great clarity about what is important in life. There is a tough honesty here: an honesty that can only emerge when people are encouraged to really explore what their Christianity means to them.