In Audacity to Believe, physician Sheila Cassidy described her arrest and torture in Chile for treating a wounded revolutionary. That experience led ultimately to her present work as director of a hospice for terminal cancer patients. In Sharing the Darkness she asks: How can one enter into another's suffering without being overwhelmed, drained, useless? Cassidy deals frankly with her own experiences of burn-out. Again and again, however, she describes the experience of grace and forgiveness where she finds her humanity affirmed and redeemed through the gift of those she serves.