by Colleen Rooney
Kathy Kalina is a hospice nurse who works with the dying and their families in homes or at a hospice location. She understands her work as a calling to assist those in the last stages of life prepare to meet God, comparing the work of a hospice nurse to a labor and delivery midwife. Both assist their patients in laboring toward new life. The labor and delivery nurse supports a mother in giving birth to a baby; the hospice nurse supports a patient in the dying process to prepare for birth into eternal life.

Rating: 5.0/5

Last year our family received unexpected news: my husband's oldest brother was ill and the doctors could not figure out what was wrong with him. It all seemed so unlikely that John could be seriously ill. We all admired John's disciplined routine set in motion in his late teens, rising early, lifting weights, and then out for a morning run.

Rating: 3.5/5