Remembering Tony Snow….Christian, Husband, Father, Newsman

(Thanks Kansas Bob for putting me onto this article)

The conservative movement lost one of its warriors with the passing of Tony Snow. He most recently served as the Press Secretary for President Bush(prior to that he worked at FoxNews hosting FoxNews Sunday). By all accounts he changed the dynamic of the job and may have been one of the most successful Press Secretaries in this generation.

I had the opportunity to see a retrospective on his life and career and it was amazing to see the love and adoration that was being bestowed upon this man from people across the political spectrum. The words that kept coming up were authenticity, humility, decency, and his genuine love for other people. In a profession that is dominated by people with huge egos it was rare to find a man whose intellect was only rivaled by his compassion.

Even while fighting his own cancer he would reach out to others who were sick and dealing with illnesses of their own. Although I did not know him I am proud that he embodied what I believe the Christian faith to be about. Tony Snow never lost sight of the continuing journey “From Where He was to Where God Wanted Him To Be”. July 12th 2008 God wanted Tony to Join him where he could bring his own unique commentary on the splendor of Heaven.

Excerpt from an article Tony Snow wrote in Christianity Today:

Blessings arrive in unexpected packages—in my case, cancer.

Those of us with potentially fatal diseases—and there are millions in America today—find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality while trying to fathom God’s will. Although it would be the height of presumption to declare with confidence What It All Means, Scripture provides powerful hints and consolations.

The first is that we shouldn’t spend too much time trying to answer the why questions: Why me? Why must people suffer? Why can’t someone else get sick? We can’t answer such things, and the questions themselves often are designed more to express our anguish than to solicit an answer.

I don’t know why I have cancer, and I don’t much care. It is what it is—a plain and indisputable fact. Yet even while staring into a mirror darkly, great and stunning truths begin to take shape. Our maladies define a central feature of our existence: We are fallen. We are imperfect. Our bodies give out.

But despite this—because of it—God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don’t know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator face-to-face.

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