TY  - BOOK
AU  - Towns,Elmer L
TI  - Pain--The Divine Mystery: Why God Allows Suffering 
AV  - BT732.T747.T696 2014 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Place of publication not identified
PB  - Doubleday and Company
KW  - Columbia International University
KW  - Alumni and alumnae
KW  - CIU Alumni Authors
KW  - Pain
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Suffering
N1  - 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?; 2
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