“It is not the absence of beauty, but perhaps it can be the place where true beauty can be known.” “Suffering is not the absence of goodness,” Tippetts told the other gravely-ill young woman. She said that Jesus understood her own “hard goodbye,” that he was walking with her in her dying, and that her heart longed for Maynard to know Jesus in her dying. In her letter to Maynard, Tippetts told her that her life and her suffering mattered. Tippetts – who authored a book about her journey last fall entitled, The Hardest Peace – had written an open letter to 29-year-old Maynard last fall during Maynard’s highly-publicized euthanasia campaign, urging her to change her mind and not commit physician-assisted suicide. He has still given me breath, and with it I pray I would live well and fade well.” “But what I see, what I know, what I have is Jesus.

“My little body has grown tired of battle, and treatment is no longer helping,” Tippetts recently wrote.

The Colorado woman had originally written about motherhood on her blog, Mundane Faithfulness, but after she became sick, the focus shifted to her trust in God and efforts to consider every moment a gift.

The 38-year-old wife and mother of four had inspired many with her courage in the face of her diagnosis and with her choice to embrace the path ahead of her. Kara Tippetts lost her two-plus battle with breast cancer March 22. Ma( ) – The terminally ill blogger who reached out to Brittany Maynard in support of life and redemptive suffering has died.

The Hardest Peace by Kara Tippetts