On living
By: Kerry Egan
Edition: Large Print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press Large Print inspirational; Thorndike Press large print inspirational series
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781410495945
Subjects: Life; Death; Conduct of life; Spiritual life; Large type books; Church work with the terminally ill; Terminally ill
Description: As a hospice chaplain, Egan didn't offer sermons or prayers, unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about God, at least not overtly. Instead, she discovered she'd been granted an invaluable chance to witness firsthand what she calls the "spiritual work of dying." Most of all, though, she listened as her patients talked about love-- for their children and partners and friends; returned, unrequited, and sometimes spurned. Now she passes along all the precious and necessary gifts contained in their stories.
Table of contents: title: The stories we tell; title: The crucible of love; title: Gloria's baby; title: If I had only known, I would have danced more; title: Where there's breath, there's hope; title: Living in the gray; title: Jeremiah; title: Born, and born again, and again; title: Love and other real things; title: Ordinary angels; title: Imagination and suffering; title: Dying is just a verb; title: It's a beautiful life and then you leave it.