What the Dying Teach Us

Lessons on Living

Samuel L Oliver, April Ford (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

1998
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7890-0476-5 (ISBN)

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What the Dying Teach Us is a collection of actual experiences and insights shared by terminally ill persons. Their experiences will teach you valuable lessons about hope, values, and faith and about giving and affirming life. These stories, which reveal the awareness of our spiritual selves and the transforming nature of grief, will touch your heart and renew your soul.

What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living is a spiritual approach to health care that teaches the reader about values, hope, and faith through actual experiences of terminally ill persons. This unique approach to health care teaches the living how to deal with grief and the bereavement process through faith and prayer. Priests, pastors, chaplains, and psychotherapists will learn how to treat parishioners or patients with the values the dying leave behind, allowing part of their deceased loved one’s beliefs and teachings to guide them through the grieving process. In the end, you will also become aware of your spiritual self while helping others heal and renew their soul.While What the Dying Teach Us concentrates on the values you can learn from the terminally ill, the author includes his own views on:

how our tears manifest the depth into which our relationship with a deceased loved one travels
how dimensions of reality lead us to appreciate the present
experiencing events in life without judgment or comparison
the role faith may play in health care as a healer of the terminally ill
how the strength of prayer can drastically change livesWhat the Dying Teach Us celebrates the spirit loved ones leave behind and teaches you how to surrender into an eternal relationship with them. Furthermore, because of this experience, you will be able to find a new and deeper realization of your own existence. What the Dying Teach Us will help you spiritually connect with yourself as well as with deceased loved ones that continue to live on through faith.

Reverend Doctor Samuel Lee Oliver is the Hospice Care Center Chaplain at the Hospice of Visiting Nurse Service in Akron, Ohio. Reverend Oliver is a member and contributing writer with the Editorial Review Board for Healing Ministry Journal and a board member of the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care. He has written numerous articles that have appeared in Enlightenments, Healing Ministry Journal, Explorer Magazine, and in various poetry anthologies. Reverend Oliver began teaching and speaking about providing spiritual care to the dying five years ago and continues to speak at public engagements on the national and international levels.

Contents
Foreword

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Lessons on Healing, Hope, and Peace
A Moment of Grace
Healing Moments
I’ll Be with You
Lessons of Hope from the Dying
A Transformed Life
Where the Soul Never Dies
Eternal Love
A Peace That Passes All Understanding
Tears of Honor
Part Two: Lessons on Spirituality
Words of God
The Freeing Power of Questions
Perceptions of Reality and Death
Keeping the Magic Alive
Lamaze Lessons for the Soul
Creating Spiritual Awareness
Painting Pictures We Cannot See
Soul Retrieval
Part Three: Evaluative Lessons on Living
Spiritual Ethics in the Medical Setting
Healing Relationships
Facing the Unknown: A Structured Experience
Reflections
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.1998
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	226 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-7890-0476-3 / 0789004763
ISBN-13	978-0-7890-0476-5 / 9780789004765
Zustand	Neuware