While I Breathe, I Hope: A Mystagogy of Dying Children's Bereavement Each reading explores biblical friendships

Each reading explores biblical friendships to reveal how God knows

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While I Breathe, I Hope: A Mystagogy of Dying Children's Bereavement Each reading explores biblical friendshipsDiagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, theologian Dr. Richard R. Gaillardetz started sharing his thoughts and reflections on CaringBridge and signed off each entry with the Latin phrase " dum spiro, spero" ("While I breathe, I hope"). In his chronologically compiled essays, Rick moves through his final season of life seeking insight from his Christian faith, while discovering new meaning in the signs and symbols that mark familiar liturgical