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Exploring Healing
Volume 22, Number 3 Summer 2005

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3 Editorial (full text)

6 The Mystery of Healing
Judith Allen Shelly
Nurses face tough questions about God's role in healing--for ourselves and for our clients. Shelly pinpoints six questions about healing and offers throughtful, biblical answers.

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16 Why in the World Is There Suffering?
Diane Stegmeir
If God is good and just, why does he allow suffering?

22 Florence Nightingale's Changing Image?
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?

29 Can Music Help Us Heal?
Karen Sutherland
Music has been used as an adjunct to health care for centuries. Today, music therapy is linked with some unexpected results. How does music aid healing?

Stories of Healing
32 The Patchwork Quilt: Healing After Sexual Abuse
Kathy Parsons (pseudonym)

34 A Gift from God: Healing from Ovarian Cancer
35 No End in Sight: Living with Chronic Pain
36 A Grim Prognosis: Can Hope Survive?
Kristene Diggins

37 Nursing Diagnosis: Chronic Sorrow
Suzanne Martin Stricklin

Departments
1 Editorial
The Heart of Healing

5 Letters
JCN Not Living Up to Its Name, God a Spiritual Care Question?

39 Practing
Close Class in Iraq
Lydia Battey

40 FAQs in Spiritual Care
Why Does God Protect Some and Not Others?
Judith Allen Shelly

42 Advertising

46 Resources
Healing, Spiritual Growth, Parish Nursing

48 PulseBeats
Prayer's Healing Power, Ongoing Tsunami Relief, Crossing the Privacy Line?