The NYT on Bill Stuntz

Here is the NYT's obituary for Bill Stuntz.  It concludes with this:

Mr. Stuntz wrote extensively about the chronic pain he suffered after a back injury in 1999, saying he felt better after realizing it was futile to dream of being painless. “Hopelessness turns out to be surprisingly good medicine,” he wrote.

He kept writing when he was dying of cancer, saying that he found hope in a single passage of the Book of Job. “You will call and I will answer,” Job says. “You will long for the creature your hands have made.”

Mr. Stuntz wrote, “The concept that God longs for the likes of me is so unbelievably sweet.”