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Water in the Wastelands: The Sacrament of Shared Suffering
William Blaine-Wallace
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Description for Water in the Wastelands: The Sacrament of Shared Suffering
Paperback. Num Pages: 102 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV; VFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 144 x 8. Weight in Grams: 181.
With compassion born of painful experience, William Blaine-Wallace invites us to simply sit with human suffering, to companion those who are ravaged by its force, and to wait for the unspeakable, inexplicable peace of God who has been present (and suffering too) throughout. “A mother, whose daughter died at the age of twelve, said that for the longest time she felt enveloped in a thick fog of numbness, despair, anger, and sadness. Yet, through the mark of years in the company of family and friends, the fog lifted. What remain are memories, which can be touched now and then ... Read more
With compassion born of painful experience, William Blaine-Wallace invites us to simply sit with human suffering, to companion those who are ravaged by its force, and to wait for the unspeakable, inexplicable peace of God who has been present (and suffering too) throughout. “A mother, whose daughter died at the age of twelve, said that for the longest time she felt enveloped in a thick fog of numbness, despair, anger, and sadness. Yet, through the mark of years in the company of family and friends, the fog lifted. What remain are memories, which can be touched now and then ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cowley Publications
Number of pages
102
Condition
New
Number of Pages
102
Place of Publication
Blue Ridge Summit, United States
ISBN
9781561012091
SKU
V9781561012091
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Ref
99-15
About William Blaine-Wallace
WILLIAM BLAINE-WALLACE has been rector of Emmanuel Church in Boston, Massachusetts for the last decade. Before his return to parish ministry, he spent thirteen years as a counselor to dying and bereaved persons, and administrator of programs that cared for them. He was executive director of the health care organization that developed and opened the nation's first acute inpatient center ... Read more
Reviews for Water in the Wastelands: The Sacrament of Shared Suffering
It offers those who would minister to the dying and bereaved the courage to look for signs of life and hope against the bleakest of life’s landscapes.
Ethics Daily
The antithiesis of a self-help book, and completely devoid of platitudes, Water in the Wastelands shares [Blaine-Wallace's] understanding of holy death.
Georgianna Henry
Covenant
Ethics Daily
The antithiesis of a self-help book, and completely devoid of platitudes, Water in the Wastelands shares [Blaine-Wallace's] understanding of holy death.
Georgianna Henry
Covenant