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	• Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity (Living Well) Marva J. Dawn Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2008 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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I feel as if I have a new friend in Marva Dawn. I have been struggling with chronic pain and illness for seven years. This is extremely challenging to me in so many ways including my faith life. This book brought me renewed faith and hope as I read the author's story and how she has lived out her own challenges. She brings truth to the lies we sometimes believe about ourselves and concrete ideas for spiritual "practices" (I like that term also) for individuals to consider. Her theological discussions about topics such as retribution helped me to find clarity in my own views. Her use of scripture and prayers throughout helped to make reading a devotional experience. I highly recommend this book. Thank you Marva.

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

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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