Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity

Marva Dawn has an insider's view of the many spiritual, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical difficulties encounteredby people with chronic illness and disabilities. She knows fromexperience how to nurture hope in spite of infirmity.

Filled with insight and practical help, each chapter of Being WellWhen We're Ill focuses on one particular kind of struggle, suchas worry, guilt, the loss of meaning, or the loss of confidence andtrust that God is present and personally loving. Each chapterdetails one or more appropriate ''finds'' - spiritual resources, emotional supports, intellectual answers, or practical solutions - that enable a person with infirmities to persevere through themand to be well in spite of them.

For each issue she explores, such as loss of dreams, loneliness, physical pain, depression, ingratitude, side effects and more, Dawnincludes discussions of biblical texts - not only texts that helplament losses but texts that bring wholeness. Readers will findthemselves companioned in their sufferings and encouraged withnew ways to surmount them.

Author: Marva J. Dawn
Publisher: Augsburg Books
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.06w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780806680385
Award: Christianity Today Book Award - Award of Merit

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/10/2008 pg. 77

About the Author
Dawn, Marva J.: -

Marva J. Dawn serves as theologian and educator with Christians Equipped for Ministry of Vancouver, Washington. Five of her books have been honored with a place on the Academy of Parish Clergy annual list of their top ten books, most recently in 2007. She is known throughout the world for her best-selling devotional and theological books and for her popular lectures on worship, ministry, and church and family life.

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