Being Well When We’re Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity

Marva Dawn has an insider’s view of the many spiritual,intellectual, emotional, social, and physical difficulties encounteredby people with chronic illness and disabilities. She knows fromexperience how to nurture hope in spite of infirmity.

Filled with insight and practical help, each chapter of Being WellWhen We’re Ill focuses on one particular kind of struggle, suchas worry, guilt, the loss of meaning, or the loss of confidence andtrust that God is present and personally loving. Each chapterdetails one or more appropriate “finds” - spiritual resources,emotional supports, intellectual answers, or practical solutions - that enable a person with infirmities to persevere through themand to be well in spite of them.

For each issue she explores, such as loss of dreams, loneliness,physical pain, depression, ingratitude, side effects and more, Dawnincludes discussions of biblical texts - not only texts that helplament losses but texts that bring wholeness. Readers will findthemselves companioned in their sufferings and encouraged withnew ways to surmount them.