We Lived With Dying Author:Margaret Woods Johnson It is possible to live fully and vibrantly in the face of death? Margaret and Wayne Woods found that it is. In the seven months before he died of cancer, Wayne and Margaret confronted both death and themselves head on. Their faith in God and the surety of the Eternal ? of life beyond death- sustained them and even made the journey joyful abov... more »e and beyond the pain. Wayne Woods was a Lutheran minister, well-loved by his colleagues and his parish. He always asked for the hard parishes and, as Margaret says, was practically ?married to the church.? But in the last two years of his life he began to give time to the personal relationships of friends and family. ?We belong to a body forever,? Margaret Woods Johnson say?s of her book. ?For those who do not sense it yet, I talked personally as though to my children, of events of their father?s siege with cancer which sho3wed it to be a strong segment of that Belonging. We each died to some things. of course, but we were more alive to each other and to that Body, ways, than we had been all the previous busily righteous years.« less