|
Miracle: When Christ Touches Our Deepest Need | 
 enlarge | Author: Flora Slosson Wuellner
Publisher: Upper Room
Category: Book
List Price: $12.00
Buy New: $6.70
You Save: $5.30 (44%)
New (13) Used (2) from $6.70
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 258828
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.2 x 0.3
ISBN: 0835899632
Dewey Decimal Number: 232.955
EAN: 9780835899635
ASIN: 0835899632
Publication Date: September 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Flora Slosson Wuellner examines the ways God's generous goodness is available to each of us. By exploring miracles and healing we find that God's longing for wholeness in each person is real. Included in this book are meditation exercises for a contemporary Christian audience which helps explain the existence of miracles and how the mystery of miracles fits into a biblical and theological framework for today. For anyone facing illness or chronic health challenges, this guide opens depths of spiritual richness for the living of a full life while facing such challenges. Readers will experience the healing power of Christ through the insights Wuellner offers in MIRACLE.
|
| Customer Reviews:
a true Christian healer July 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am not sure how I became aware of Flora Slosson Wuellner and her books but it certainly was to my great fortune that I did.
There are no doubt a great spate of books about healing for the Christian but in my estimation, FSW's are certainly at the very top. With FSW you get no off-putting eccentricities -- no preoccupation with Satan and "spiritual warfare"; no harshness or scolding about one's sin or lack of faith to be healed; no false promises of certain, immediate cures.
Instead, one finds the gentle wisdom of a veteran healer who encourages, nurtures and tenderly guides. FSW's image of God is quite profound and it is evident that she truly has come to know God's love intimately in her own life. Ultimately, God is our Healer as we begin to open up to God's deep compassionate desire to bring about our complete wellbeing. FSW faithfully leads and guides us to the divine embrace, pointing away from herself to the One who is the resurrection and the life.
There are so many perceptive insights that FSW peppers throughout her books, I can only mention a few. For example, FSW points out that Christians are in pain from their woundedness just as much as from the effects of personal sin. Unless Christian counselors and healers understand that important nuance, we may unnecessarily compound a sense of guilt and shame in Christians seeking freedom from their personal distress.
Further, read a lot of today's spiritual or self-help guides and you are liable to be urged to (pick one of the following): eradicate your ego, annihilate your false self, shed your illusion that there really is a self (Buddhism), pry off your masks, crucify your desires... (you get the message).
FSW gently responds: "God - the God we see through Jesus - does not force us. Egos are not to be killed but, rather, healed and transformed. Masks are not to be ripped off. The fear beneath them is healed until the mask falls off naturally like a scab off healed flesh. The walls are not to be torn down but healed, perhaps slowly, back into permeable borders...". (From her book Release: Healing from Wounds of Family, Church, and Community) Quite refreshing to hear!
"Miracles" is her most recent book and vintage FSW. I think this would be a great place to start for those new to her writings. The book launches off of passages selected from the gospel accounts of Jesus varied healing miracles. FSW is convinced that miracles have not ceased in our contemporary era and that we need to reimagine our lives where WE encounter the ever-present healing Jesus. But again, FSW has no illusions that miracles always happen instantaneously and in the same way.
Another welcomed feature of most of her books, are guided meditations at the end of each chapter. Going through them, indeed, is a therapeutic balm. Now we need to have her collect these in an audio CD so we don't have to distractedly read through them to follow!
I am truly indebted to FSW as I have worked through my own painful issues of PTSD. Sure, I have read a plethora of psychology books on trauma and childhood issues but nothing finally compares to the healing empowerment I find in FSW's books. My hope is that word gets out to a broad range of hurting Christians, that they have a profound ally and guide in Flora Slosson Wuellner in finding God's gracious healing for their lives.
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
