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Pain--The Divine Mystery : Why God Allows Suffering / by Elmer L. Towns. [print]

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Towns, Elmer L [Author]

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BT732.T747.T696 2014
BT732

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Contents:

Why pain? All the wrong reasons to react to pain -- Why not pain? The many results of pain -- Coping : your reaction to pain. Section 2. Helplessness : a hospital makes you feel absolutely helpless -- Fear : fear makes suffering more painful -- Crying out : the constant temptation to give up -- Bitterness : when pain turns you against everything and everyone -- Anguish : the agony of those in the prison of suffering -- Section 3. Patience : mental adjustment to living with pain -- Prayer : God's prescription for healing prayer -- Faith : to move a mountain in pain -- Presence : nothing helps hurting like talking to a friend -- Worship : the positive diversion of pain -- Transformation : suffering as a change of agent. Section 4. Pathology : there are all kinds of pain -- Health : health is the absence of disease or pain -- Afterthought : where do you go from here?

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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	BT732.7.T69 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001865605

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Section 1. Purpose : the divine sculptor chisels on you for a purpose -- Why pain? All the wrong reasons to react to pain -- Why not pain? The many results of pain -- Coping : your reaction to pain. Section 2. Helplessness : a hospital makes you feel absolutely helpless -- Fear : fear makes suffering more painful -- Crying out : the constant temptation to give up -- Bitterness : when pain turns you against everything and everyone -- Anguish : the agony of those in the prison of suffering -- Section 3. Patience : mental adjustment to living with pain -- Prayer : God's prescription for healing prayer -- Faith : to move a mountain in pain -- Presence : nothing helps hurting like talking to a friend -- Worship : the positive diversion of pain -- Transformation : suffering as a change of agent. Section 4. Pathology : there are all kinds of pain -- Health : health is the absence of disease or pain -- Afterthought : where do you go from here?

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