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Helen M. Luke

Helen M. Luke is director of the Apple Farm Community near Three Rivers, Michigan, and the author of Woman: Earth and Spirit, The Inner Story, and The Voice Within, all published by Crossroad.

— From December 1987
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Suffering

“Suffering” is a word used to express so many kinds of experience that its precision of meaning has been lost. The Latin verb ferre means “to bear” or “to carry,” and “suffer” derives from it, with the prefix “sub” meaning “under.”

December 1987
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