In life's toughest moments, how do you go on living? Kate Bowler has been exploring this question ever since she was diagnosed with stage IV cancer at age 35. In a profound, heartbreaking and unexpectedly funny talk, she offers some answers -- challenging the idea that "everything happens for a reason" and sharing hard-won wisdom about how to make sense of the world after your life is suddenly, completely changed. "I believe that in the darkness, even there, there will be beauty and there will be love," she says.
This video was produced by TEDMED. TED's editors featured it among our daily selections on the home page. About the speaker Kate Bowler · Divinity professor, author Kate Bowler is reexamining her perspective on the "prosperity gospel": the belief that good things happen to good people.
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