Now I Lay Me Down to Fight

<P><B>In stirring verse and essays Katy Bowser Hutson chronicles her battle with breast cancer and the complications of faith amid such a fight.</B> Accentuated by the art of Jodi Hays Katy's words lead us through the realization of cancer the experience of chemotherapy and a mastectomy relentless rounds of radiation the uncertainty of ongoing treatment and what comes after survival. She writes in resistance to sickness of wrestling toward beauty:</P><P><I>Cancer is an overgrowth a kudzu:Tangling and strangling legitimate life.<br/>Chemo is a killing a burning out: <br/>Burning down to ashy carbon indiscriminately<br/>But cancer did you know that I am a poet?</I></P><P>Through it all she shows what it means to struggle in a battered body and to pray to a God who is near to the broken. Join her in this consideration of mortality and witness her persisting trust in God's unseen ways.</P>