Lending a Heart
This was truly a wonderful "daily" assignment that I was handed. Melissa Vesselovsky has launched a cancer ministry to lend emotional and spiritual support to victims of cancer. Nina, pictured below, is battling aggressive ovarian cancer. She is 49.
An aspect that I loved of this story was the complete absence of religious boundries. Nina is not Catholic, and the entire program is run through the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. Melissa does not come to preach, nor convert. She comes to hug, hold, and talk. They pray together, but only at Nina's request. This, I believe, is the true nature of religion.
I realize that many of these images look very similar (that's because a hospital room is very cramped and there are a limited amount of angles to shoot from). However, if you look through them, you will see that they each add a different dimension to the story. Some are sad, some are heartfelt, and some are funny. That's the way life is.
Cheers.
An aspect that I loved of this story was the complete absence of religious boundries. Nina is not Catholic, and the entire program is run through the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. Melissa does not come to preach, nor convert. She comes to hug, hold, and talk. They pray together, but only at Nina's request. This, I believe, is the true nature of religion.
I realize that many of these images look very similar (that's because a hospital room is very cramped and there are a limited amount of angles to shoot from). However, if you look through them, you will see that they each add a different dimension to the story. Some are sad, some are heartfelt, and some are funny. That's the way life is.
Cheers.
posted by Brian Drake at 9:11 PM
1 Comments:
religion really can be beautiful when it isnt causing wars and condeming people. and its nice to see some pictures that display that. i really like the one where she gets a fake shot.
bri
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