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Overview
Filled with insight and practical help, each chapter of Being Well When We're Ill focuses on one particular kind of struggle, such as worry, guilt, the loss of meaning, or the loss of confidence and trust that God is present and personally loving. Each chapter details one or more appropriate ''finds'' - spiritual resources, emotional supports, intellectual answers, or practical solutions - that enable a person with infirmities to persevere through them and 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, Dawn includes discussions of biblical texts - not only texts that help lament losses but texts that bring wholeness. Readers will find themselves companioned in their sufferings and encouraged with new ways to surmount them.
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Publishers Weekly
It is possible to be ill or live with a disability and still be well, according to theologian, educator and speaker Dawn. She should know. As a person with a variety of serious physical challenges, and who has grappled with emotional and bodily issues as well as theological and biblical questions, Dawn is a powerful guide for those who want to be well in spite of their medical conditions. While she has written about her disabilities in previous books, this one is a complete and helpful analysis of the implications of physical challenges, along with concrete spiritual, theological and practical suggestions for dealing with them. Each chapter names one particular aspect of illness, such as loneliness, boredom, physical pain, regrets, bitterness or meaninglessness, and offers strategies for coping with them without sugarcoating or belittling the real struggles people face. Dawn also looks past the individual to offer a global perspective, making suggestions for addressing governments and health systems that further oppress those who are ill. Stories from the author's and others' experiences offer readers the sense of being graciously companioned along a very difficult road. (June)
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Table of Contents
Loss and Finds 1
Loss of Dreams-God's Larger Story 14
A Vacuum without God-Spiritual Practices 24
Meaninglessness-Looking for Grace 39
Loss of "Innocence"-Lament 52
Retribution and Other Bad Ideas-Biblical Theology 67
Making God Too Small-The Mysterious Love of the Trinity 80
Loss of Trust, Bitterness-God's Discipline 91
Loneliness-Community 103
Physical Pain-Ministry to Others 115
Unproductivity-The Mysterious Workings of God 130
Worry-Gratitude, the Peace of God 141
Boredom-Solitude and the Glory of God 154
Side Effects-Strengthening What Remains 165
Wrong Perceptions and Expectations-Truth-Telling 176
Regrets-Forgiveness 188
False Guilt-Medicine Is a Stochastic Art 203
Depression-Medical Gifts 211
Dying-Dying Daily and Well 224
Loss of Certainty-Redemptive Suffering, Eschatology 237
Infirmity and the Trinity's Larger Story 250
Epilogue 261
Appendix
Resources on Suffering, Evil, and Healing 265
Other Works Marva Dawn 267
Notes 270