Exploring Healing
Volume 22, Number 3 Summer 2005
Editorial
The Heart of Healing by Kathy Schoonover-Shoffner
In this editorial, Schoonover-Shoffner shares with readers how God choose not to provide physical healing with regard to infertility. Explore honest questions and struggles and read thought provoking insights on what God heals when he says no to physical healing.
The Mystery of Healing by Judy Allen Shelly
Nurses face tough questions about God's role in healing-for our clients and ourselves. Shelly pinpoints six questions about healing and offers thoughtful, biblical answers. Includes an extensive chart outlining healing accounts in the gospels.
Why in the World Is There Suffering? by Diane Stegmeir
Stegmeir walks with readers through difficult questions surrounding God and why he allows suffering. Believing that good can come out of suffering, the article explains how we are changed through suffering. Includes a chart on what Nurses Christian Fellowship believes about suffering.
Florence Nightingale's Changing Image? by Sonya Grypma
In recent nursing literature, Nightingale has evolved from quintessential Christian nurse to modern-day mystic. Is this change significant? Who was Nightingale and what did she believe? Grypma explores these and other questions in part one of a two part series. (See Fall 2005 for part two.)
Can Music Healp Us Heal? by Karen Sutherland
Music has been used as an adjunct to health care for centuries. Today, music therapy is linked with some unexpected results. Sutherland provides research illustrating that music is good medicine.
Stories of Healing
The Patchwork Quilt: Healing After Sexual Abuse by Kathy Parsons (pseudonym)
"Healing from sexual abuse is akin to creating a patchwork quilt," says the author, who shares her recent journey toward healing. Additional resources for healing after sexual abuse are included.
A Gift from God: Healing from Ovarian Cancer by Kristene Diggins
Diggins, a missionary nurse, recounts the story of a cancer survivor who did not loose heart despite all odds. "Faith, especially in the most trying of times, is a miracle in itself and a gift that can only come from God," states Diggins.
No End in Sight: Living with Chronic Pain by Kristene Diggins
Working as a missionary nurse, Diggins tells how her recent diagnoses of chronic pain changed her nursing and her perspectives.
A Grim Prognosis: Can Hope Survive? by Kristene Diggins
Diggins realizes her worst fears for a young child with an inoperable brain tumor. She asks how hope can survive regardless of the situation.
Nursing Diagnosis: Chronic Sorrow Suzanne Martin Stricklin
Stricklin shares how she moved from hiding her son's mental retardation to sharing the burden with others. An honest, heart warming story of embracing chronic sorrow.
What About My Spiritual Needs? Mary T. Sweat
Sweat provides twelve valuable tips to help nurses care for their own spiritual needs.
Practicing
Close Calls in Iraq by Lydia Battey
Battey, a captain in the U.S. Army, raises questions regarding God's protection for some and not for others based on her experiences as a nurse in Iraq.
FAQs in Spiritual Care
Why Does God Protect Some and Not Others? by Judith Allen Shelly
Shelly addresses the difficult questions raised by Battey about why some are protected and some are not, and why some live and some die. Shelly explores the deeper, underlying question of Why does God allow evil?