The Daily Herald, a paper of the western suburbs of Chicago, features this story about a young woman:
Kristen Anderson’s world was shattered after the deaths of four friends and her grandmother. As she was grieving those losses, she was raped. Feeling she had no way to cope, she tried to kill herself. She survived, and now shares her story with others, to reach out to those who feel hopeless.
Just another story of God’s inscrutably redeeming ways. Both predictable (for we’ve seen him do this time and again) and wonderful (miracles, no matter how generic, are amazing to behold).
Then again, no miracle is generic, and the problem here is likely a problem of journalism: this is narrative arc that makes sense to a typical 21st century journalist. I’m guessing a deeper look at Kristen’s life would suggest something both miraculous and utterly unique.
