5/19/2023 0 Comments This Too Shall Last by K.J. RamseyAfter copious amounts of tea sipped between fervid research binges, I would walk across the dark, quiet campus to my hall, where I would stay up even later attending to the tears of peers getting over breakups or venting anger about their roommates. I spent hours each day in the library writing papers, the day punctuated by meals and coffee dates with women from my dorm. “Out of nowhere, the majority of my life consisted of crying tears of my own within the confines of four cinderblock walls, too sick on most days to even get out of bed.” The year I got sick, I was a resident assistant tasked with emotionally and spiritually supporting a group of nearly thirty college women. It’s a grace to welcome KJ to the farm’s front porch today… As an author and licensed professional counselor, KJ guides us to sit down and rest in a story where our whole selves are welcome. In This Too Shall Last: Finding Grace When Suffering Lingers, KJ courageously tells the story of her own lasting suffering of living with a severe autoimmune disease and the wonder of encountering Jesus in the midst of her pain. My friend KJ Ramsey’sbook came out a few months into the pandemic, and she never could have imagined that the title and encouragement inside would be so apt to what we would all need. One year ago we collectively entered a season of suffering that we didn’t know would last.
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