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“With my ALS diagnosis, I was stripped of almost everything I thought was me,” shares Rebecca Talley, using a computer to speak for her. She reflects on these “false identities'' with a new understanding that she holds a deeper identity than her ministry or active hobbies. Even though the loss of speech is extremely difficult, she is still able to communicate the words that God gives her in this new life situation.

Sometimes these words are insights from her own reflection. Other times words come to her, such as a comment exclaimed by a friend who found out Rebecca’s diagnosis at church: “Holy shit!” They are not words that Rebecca would have chosen herself, but they are ones in which she now sees great meaning. “There was nothing more appropriate than what Gayle said that day,” says her husband Tim. “God has, is, and will turn this situation, which is terrible, is crappy, whatever word, use her word, whatever. But he makes it holy.”

Tim and Rebecca call this experience the sacred journey, a path that is not easy but has its own rewards and lessons when you are willing to receive them. Rebecca summed it up in a few words from her own mouth: “It’s worth it.”