Kara Tippetts fought the fight and finished the race. Tippetts, the pastor’s wife who blogged about her battle with terminal cancer, died Sunday in Colorado Springs, Colo. She was 38.
In many ways, Tippetts lost. She lost her battle with breast cancer. She lost mothering her four young children, and her children lost their mother. She lost the ministry she and her husband Jason had just started.
But in all the ways that matter to a follower of Christ, Tippetts won. Long before her cancer diagnosis, Tippetts and her husband resolved to spend their lives faithfully answering Martin Luther’s question: “What will you do in the mundane days of faithfulness?”...