Broken Bodies, Healing Hearts: Reflections of a Hospital Chaplain
Autor Gretchen Tenbrook, Harold G Koenigen Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 feb 2000
Broken Bodies, Healing Hearts: Reflections of a Hospital Chaplain provides chaplains, doctors, nurses, psychologists, and counselors with insight into the experiences of individual hospital patients. You'll learn of the suffering that they endure, and what patients and caretakers can learn about themselves and God through their ordeals. This is a wonderful collection of descriptive, personal, and heartfelt essays, each derived from a visit with a particular patient. These episodes demonstrate the wonder of divine strength manifested in human frailty. You'll see the spiritual aspects of both significant and common events, inspiring you to contemplate and appreciate all of your life experiences. Broken Bodies, Healing Hearts will help you unravel daily questions and problems and encourage you to seek God's eminent presence in all of your experiences.
This intriguing collection demonstrates what it means to be human and what it means to be made in God's likeness. You will explore the heartwrenching struggles of unique individuals, such as:
- Jimmy Meyer, a three-year-old toddler with a terminal brain tumor, who takes each day for whatever it could offer him. His simple trust teaches us all to grow in our faith and seek the child within ourselves
- Mr. Nelson, who after suffering a heart attack and facing the possibility of death, recounts how the experience served to turn his life from one of anger and resentment to one of peace and freedom, reminding us all of the healing power of grace when we are willing to receive it
- Martha Claxton, a fifty-eight-year-old woman battling leukemia. In finally letting go she experiences God's eternal security, inviting each of us to surrender our lives to the One who knows our every need
- Ms. May, a thirty-eight-year-old with Down's Syndrome, who touches all those whom she comes in contact with. Her ability to live fully in the present moment reminds us that whatever is happening now is worth our undivided attention
Enlightening and moving, Broken Bodies, Healing Hearts reveals the presence of God in the lives of patients, chaplains, and all those who care for others. You will discover the connection between human vulnerability and spiritual growth.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780789008527
ISBN-10: 0789008521
Pagini: 188
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0789008521
Pagini: 188
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Professional Practice & DevelopmentCuprins
Contents Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- And a Child Will Lead Them
- Beyond Pity
- Redeemed by Grace
- Divine Identity
- Learning to Be
- Homecoming
- Letting Go to Keep From Falling Apart
- Fertile Ground
- Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
- Not Religious, But Real
- The Man Without a Nose
- Called to Wait
- Recollection
- Faces of Grief
- Mutual Healing
- Free to Die
- Light Shines in the Darkness
- Good-bye Grandmére
- Addicted to Pain
- A Time for Everything
- God's Poster Child
- A Longing for Companionship
- Living in Love
- Looking Back Through New Lenses
- Always in Process
- At a Distance
- Another Side of Me
- To Be in Relationship Again
- Necessary Friction
- Empty Before God
- Comfort in Death and in Life
- Everybody's Savior
- And God Was in it All
- Pink Pajamas in Heaven
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
Descriere
Broken Bodies, Healing Hearts: Reflections of a Hospital Chaplain provides chaplains, doctors, psychologists, counselors, and nurses with insight into the experiences of individual hospital patients and the suffering that they endure, as well as what they learn about themselves and God through their ordeal. This is a wonderful collection of descriptive, insightful, personal, and heartfelt essays, each derived from a visit with a particular patient. These essays bring to the surface aspects of human experience, inviting you to see the spiritual behind both the significant and everyday events in life.