While I Breathe, I Hope: A Mystagogy of Dying Children's Bereavement Shakespeare

Shakespeare

Rupp offers here sensitive insights on the pain of loss and the hope she finds when she is willing to let go and trust

composed over a lifetime

and peace as described in the Bible

While I Breathe, I Hope: A Mystagogy of Dying Children's Bereavement ShakespeareDiagnosed 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