Towns, Elmer L, <br/><br/>
Pain--The Divine Mystery :  Why God Allows Suffering /  [print] 
by Elmer L. Towns. 
 - Place of publication not identified  :  Doubleday and Company,  (c)2014. 
 - 158  pages ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Columbia International University--Alumni and alumnae.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>CIU Alumni Authors<br/>Pain--Religious aspects--Christianity.<br/>Suffering--Religious aspects--Christianity.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT732.T747.T696 2014 BT732