The Reed of God: Blessed Chiara Luce Badano

The Reed of God: Blessed Chiara Luce Badano: "Blessed Chiara Luce Badano Blessed Chiara Luce Badano, pray for us! By Christopher Stefanick. Sometimes we’d prefer that our lives be a d..."

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Sometimes we’d prefer that our lives be a different story than the one God seems to be writing. In our fragile existence it doesn’t take much to turn a romance into a drama, or an adventure into a tragedy. At a glance, the story of Chiara Badano—an only child conceived after 11 years of marriage, who died at 18 after a bout with a painful form of bone cancer—looks like an empty tragedy, but not from the perspective of the Divine Author.