Practicing Patients
Johanna and the boys sat down to talk about ‘Practicing Patience: How Christians Should Be Sick,’ co-authored by Stanley Hauerwas and Charles Pinches. The essay was originally published in Christian Bioethics (1996, Vol. 2, No.2,).
From Stanley:
“While medicine usually gives us birth and surrounds us as we die, it does not form or mold us in the time in between. Indeed, when we meet medicine full in the face it comes to us as we or those we love are sick or dying. If therefore medicine attempts to form us into virtuous people on its own turf it will be too little too late…To be patient when we are sick requires first that we learn how to practice patience when we are not sick. God has given us ample resources for recovering the practicing of patience.”
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