Exploring Healing
Volume 22, Number 3 Summer
2005
Article
Summaries
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 Judith 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 Help 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.
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 by
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.
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.
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?
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