The Word Among Us

February 2007 Issue

Count It All Joy for the Sake of Love

The Journey of Mother Marianne Cope

By: Jill A. Boughton

All around you, wherever you live, there are quiet heroes. I’m sure you could come up with your own personal list: A mother struggling to maximize the potential of a child with autism, a husband tenderly caring for a dependent and querulous wife with Alzheimer’s disease.

Or perhaps you know people whose love for Christ moves them to do something out of the ordinary—say, a gifted scientist who leaves a...

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