Surely it's high time - isn't it? - that we pay as much attention to the blessings of a long affliction as we do to the pain for which we curse it. Please: it's not a man's peculiar interpretation or a woman's particular gift for a long-suffering patience which enables each to live the sickness better than another person does. It's a faith available to everyone. (Though there always is, of course, a learning curve.)
Pay attention!
In the Lakota tongue: wachinksapa yo! - which meaning is closer to "Be attentive" than to something we do sporadically. Be ever in a state of attention.
Wangerin, Letters, p196-7
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