Flannery O'Connor - Warned that Tenderness without God becomes Terror

I have to admit I know very little about Flannery O'Connor but just watched this short video and thought it was excellent.
If you click 'Watch on Youtube' it will play.

 

She was really something. An old time Catholic warrior who offered up her considerable sufferings to the Lord and is famous for saying to a journalist who questioned her faith in the Eucharist " if I thought it was just a symbol I'd say to hell with it."
She wrote stories that used characters and settings in the South to reveal spiritual truth. An unblinking eye toward evil and an unblinking faith in God. Her stories are startling though. A bit dark.

 

Thanks Ann, I'd like to read some of her stories. I had a look on Kindle and found a collection 'Good Country People and Other Stories.'
It says she was just 39 years old when she died, having suffered with Lupus for 12 years, which her father had also died from.