Broken Bodies, Healing Hearts: Reflections of a Hospital Chaplain

ISBN-13: 9780789008510 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 188 str.

Gretchen W. TenBrook

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TenBrook, a former Adjunct Chaplain in the Department of Pastoral Care at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, recounts personal experiences that give insight into the lives of individual hospital patients, the suffering they endure, and what they and those who care for them can learn about themselves and Go

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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

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Gretchen W. TenBrook