Being well when we're ill wholeness and hope in spite of infirmity

Main Author: Dawn, Marva J.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : Augsburg Books, c2008.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Loss and finds
  • Loss of dreams : God's larger story
  • A vacuum without God : spiritual practices
  • Meaninglessness : looking for grace
  • Loss of "innocence" : lament
  • Retribution and other bad ideas : biblical theology
  • Making God too small : the mysterious love of the Trinity
  • Loss of trust, bitterness : God's discipline
  • Loneliness : community
  • Physical pain : ministry to others
  • Unproductivity : the mysterious workings of God
  • Worry : gratitude, the peace of God
  • Boredom : solitude and the glory of God
  • Side effects : strengthening what remains
  • Wrong perceptions and expectations : truth-telling
  • Regrets : forgiveness
  • False guilt : medicine is a stochastic art
  • Depression : medical gifts
  • Dying : dying daily and well
  • Loss of certainty : redemptive suffering, eschatology
  • Infirmity and the Trinity's larger story.