Good Life and Good Death

Despite her [Flannery O’Connor] awful struggle with lupus, her having to go home to a tough mother, she was not a whiner or complainer. Her faith was tough; she just railed at the world’s attempt to dilute, to make trivial Jesus’ life and message. And right to the end, too – she said, “Our purpose in life is to die a good death.” She died in an Atlanta hospital, on her back, writing on a shelf that had been set up above her, one of her best short stories, “Parker’s Back.” ~Ida Forbis

Reminds me of the words of the hymn, “For the saints of God are just folk like me, / And I mean to be one too.” Namaste.