Voices from the hospice
Subtitle: staying with life through suffering and waiting
By: Bob Whorton
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9780334054269
Subjects: Church work with the terminally ill; Christian life; Hospice care; Terminal care; Christianity
Description: Hospice chaplain Bob Whorton takes us deep into the human experience of suffering and waiting. Framed as a train journey, we are invited to travel through various stations and stop for a while in many different station waiting rooms. The counter-cultural message is that there are difficult situations in our lives which we cannot escape from and must be lived; there are no short-cuts, and the stations must be travelled through one by one. However, in following this path we will find a new orientation to life, and we will find ourselves mirroring the way of Christ. In these pages we listen to the voices of patients and family members in a hospice; they become our teachers. And we listen also to the ancient voice of the psalmist who was well versed in the ways of suffering love.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Living with uncertainty; title: 2. Running away, needing to stay; title: 3. Finding the way; title: 4. A new orientation; title: 5. Dancing off the edge; title: 6. The breaking of God; title: 7. Facing the enemy; title: 8. Living our death; title: 9. The waiting room; title: 10. Calmed and quietened; title: 11. Unless the Lord builds the house; title: 12. Together; title: 13. Allowing the journey