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Suffering / Grief

How To Have Better Health Through Prayer: A Handbook of Spiritual Healing by Life-Study Fellowship.  A miraculous book of prayers and meditations to help you - and your loved ones - on the road to health, hope and happiness. (1955)

From The Heart: A mother's journey through grief by Swinney, Sharon.  "If only one person finds comfort from these poems, Something to show them they are not alone.  Maybe even something to help them dull the pain, Then I'll know my prescious little Mary, did not die in vain." Sharon (1996)

God Is My Strength: Meditations for the sick by Clark, Wayne C.  Here are words of inspiration and assurance for the person who is confined because of illness.  Each of the fourteen daily readings contains passages from the Bible and a devotional throught based on the biblical selection. (1977)

Healing by Macnutt, Father Francis.  There are those who believe that people dragged down by sadness, sickness and guilt are bearing a cross specially chosen by God for them.  Some believe that destructive suffering is redemptive.  Father Francis MacNutt, one of the first Catholics involved in the Charismatic Renewal, believes that sickness (physical, emotional or spiritual) offers, instead, a glorious chance for man to use one of Christ's most precious gifts - the power to heal through prayer. (1974)

Jonathan: You left too soon by Biebel, David B.  "Daddy, if I was killed, would you still be able to find me?"  Three year old Jonathan Biebel asked his father this question one summer day, innocently foreshadowing the mysterious illness that would soon atack his body and eventually take his life.  This is the intensely personal story of how one man, as a father and minister, came to terms with his bereavement and experienced a more mature realisation of his faith. (1981)

None Of These Diseases by McMillen, S.I..  Science - 4000 years behind times!  Scared writings predate modern medicine.  The Bible … prevents devastating disease and senseless suffering, explodes the myth of the Kinsey report, and erases irreconcilable grief and mind-poisoning guilt. (1963)

The Blessings Of Illness by Schlink, Basilea.  During a long stay in the hospital I came to realize that, just as illnesses differ from one another, so ourneed for comfort varies with each illness.  Some ilnesses burden our souls.  Others bring much bodily pain and cause great inconvenience.  But each has been chosen for us personally by our Father, out of love for us.  Jesus can transform every trial and trouble into blessing, if only we trust in His love; if only we accept His will and follow His way. (1973)

The Book Of Hope: How women can overcome depression (and loneliness, anxiety, shyness, boredom, etc) by DeRosis, Helen A & Victoria Y Pellegrino.  The Book Of Hope offers a checklist of "first steps" for pulling yourself together, scenarios for building assertiveness and making decisions, ways to improve your body image, a test for "marriage anger", thoughts for mothers, specific suggestions for the partner of a depressed woman, the divorced or separate woman, the working woman, a step-by-step program of anti-depression exercises, and much, much more. (1976)

The Compassionate Visitor; Resources for Ministering to people who are ill. by Becker, Arthur H..  Do you wish you felt at ease visiting those who are ill?  Do you wonder what to say and how to offer comfort?  Here is practical help for anyone involved in congregational visitation ministry.  Examples of actual hospital visits illustrate the basic do's and don'ts of caring for patients' personal and spiritual needs. (1985)

The Problem Of Pain by Lewis, C.S..  For centuries Chirstians have been perplexed by the problem - "If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creature to suffer pain?"  In this book C.S. Lewis gives his view as a layman on the Christian doctrine relating to all aspects of the problem of pain and explains the existance of pain in a Christian world. (1940)

The Struggle For Peace: A study in mental health by Brandt, Henry R..  'This book is a result of many years' experience in the couseling room.  I have tried to present my views on mental health, on knowing yourself, on inner peace in terms of real people with real problems, many of whom have struggled for peace and who have found it only through Christ and His Word.' (1971)

Turning Points: An invitation to growth and healing by Turley, Bruce.  How can we deal creatively with health problems, relationship crises and grief?  How can we respond positively to the adjustments we face on our journey from youth, through mid-life into older adulthood?  The author invites us to see and respond to the potential for growth and healing that is in these experiences, as well as the pain they bring.  He suggests that crises can be turning points providing opportunities for new beginnings.  This book is an invitation to personal growth but also equips people to care for others. (1985)

When God Says No by Briles, Judith.  Using personal experiences and the stories of people of faith, bothin today's world and in the Bible, When God Says No examines specific steps in the process of dealing with adversity and pain.  Includes - How to go from asking why to why not.  How to move from self-concern to concentrating on a relationship with God.  How to get "unstuck" from anger and depression and reach out to others. How to accept waiting as part of the process. (1990)

Your Suffering by Wood, Rev. Maurice.  Includes - The mystery of suffering and how to approach it & The path of suffering and how to tread it. (1958)