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Be Not Afraid sufferingChapter 1sufferingWhenever I think of suffering, Miriam comes to mind.Born with multiple physical handicaps, including theinability to swallow, she had to be fed by dropper forthe first few weeks of her life and by feeding tube untilshe was one year old. But it was “brittle bone disease”that affected her most severely. As a toddler she wouldsometimes break a bone just by trying to pull her legout from between the bars of her crib. Later, a bumpinto a door frame or a simple fall caused by trippingcould mean a series of fractures in her arms or legs orboth, often followed by hospitalization and surgery, andalways accompanied by much pain, not to mention sixweeks or more in a cast. By age eight, she had brokenher legs sixteen times.At ten, Miriam was suffering heart failure. As ifthat weren’t enough, the curvature of her spine,which significantly reduced her lung capacity, left her108