Although philosophers and theologians love to analyze, debate and write about “the problem of pain,” the fact is that pain does not come in the abstract. Pain in reality is an intensely personal problem, and the real questions are the ones asked alone in the darkness through tears. Wife, mother and bestselling author Meg Woodson knows that darkness. She watched her son’s and then her daughter’s slow, agonizing deaths from cystic fibrosis. This book, like other classic elegies of literature, is a final tribute to Meg’s daughter, Peggie Woodson. But it is much more than that.
Turn It Into Glory is the very moving testament of Peggie’s final hospitalization, of a dear girl who endured her final odyssey mostly with grace and along the way achieved the fullest measure of glory. Readers will travel with Meg Woodson through her daughter’s last “six weeks less one day” and in the end, like her daughter, look into the face of God.
With her great writing skill, Meg Woodson also deals with the most profound questions humanity ever asks—the grief of a mother for a daughter, the unbearable weight of death in life, and the final life in death that is the ultimate victory.
Above all, it is about abandoning oneself to divine providence, for Turn It Into Glory is not about the "whys” but about the “hows” of suffering. How did one particular family make it through the tragedy?
How did the young heroine more than simply "make it through"—how did she turn it into glory? And how was God with them? How did they love each other?
And how did they not love each other? How did they live with the knowledge that they did not love enough?
A remarkable story so honestly unveiled as to benefit readers eternally.