Wishing You Well : Prayers and Poems for Comfort, Healing and Recovery

by Cotner, June

• ISBN13: 9780829420364
• ISBN10: 0829420363
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Loyola Pr

Summary

Wishing You Well is the perfect companion for those times when you or someone you love is going through a particularly difficult time. These wise and compassionate selections encourage those touched by illness to find solace in simplicity, comfort in ritual, and hope in the healing touch of a loved one's warm embrace.

Table of Contents

Thanks	xiii
A Letter to Readers	xvii
1 COMFORT
Do Not Be Afraid	2	(1)
Still Waters	3	(1)
Angel Promise	4	(1)
Unending Love	5	(2)
From Your Friend	7	(1)
To a Good Friend	8	(1)
Angel Embrace	9	(1)
Each Day You Call My Heart, O God	10	(1)
A Quiet Comfort	11	(1)
Testing, Testing...	12	(1)
The Lord Is My Shepherd	13	(1)
The Light of God Surrounds Me	14	(1)
Let Nothing Disturb You	15	(1)
Peace I Give unto You	16	(2)
2 FAITH
A Life Jacket	18	(1)
3AM	19	(2)
Take My Hand	21	(1)
Steps	22	(1)
Hearing with Hearts of Faith	23	(1)
Promise	24	(1)
Great Expectations	25	(1)
Believe	26	(1)
Prayer in Time of Trouble	27	(2)
Safe Passage	29	(1)
I Will Not Be Overcome	30	(1)
Do Not Lose Heart	31	(3)
3 COURAGE
Grace	34	(1)
So You Mustn't Be Frightened	35	(2)
Facing the Facts	37	(1)
Letting Go	38	(1)
At Peace	39	(1)
Courage Is Not the Absence of Fear	40	(1)
Do the Best	41	(1)
Grief	42	(1)
A Vailima Prayer	43	(1)
Stubborn Faith	44	(1)
Somehow	45	(1)
When You Get into a Tight Place	46	(1)
Endurance	47	(1)
Courage	48	(2)
4 HOPE
Hope Will Come Again	50	(1)
Hanging by a Thread	51	(1)
New Horizon	52	(1)
Hope Is What Will Get You Through This	53	(1)
Hope	54	(1)
The Essence of Touch	55	(1)
Sowing, Reaping	56	(1)
Spring Is My Faith	57	(1)
Faith	58	(1)
Outside the Bone-Marrow Unit	59	(1)
An Assignment	60	(1)
Rejoice	61	(1)
For We Are Here,	62	(1)
Hoping	63	(3)
5 HEALING
Rx	66	(1)
In the House of the Sun	67	(1)
Get Well	68	(1)
Hippocratic Wisdom	69	(1)
Sanctuary	70	(2)
For Healing	72	(1)
This I Know	73	(1)
Why Not?	74	(1)
Woman to Woman	75	(1)
For a Dear One at a Dark Time	76	(1)
The Best Cure	77	(1)
Twilight Cure	78	(1)
Live Quietly	79	(1)
Be Patient	80	(1)
Renaissance	81	(1)
For a Friend Lying in Intensive Care Waiting for Her White Blood Cells to Rejuvenate After a Bone-Marrow Transplant	82	(1)
Angel Wings	83	(1)
Sink into Stillness	84	(1)
Surrender to Wonder	85	(3)
6 REFLECTIONS
I Live in Wonder	88	(1)
In the Midst of Greatest Sorrow	89	(1)
Tomorrow	90	(1)
In the Midst of Pain	91	(2)
Pain	93	(1)
The Best We Can Do	94	(1)
Permanent Gifts	95	(1)
Hope from a Cancer Survivor	96	(1)
What Does Not Destroy Me	97	(1)
A Meditation on Acceptance	98	(1)
What Really Counts	99	(1)
Think Positive	100	(1)
Worrying	101	(1)
Difficulties	102	(1)
The Sources of Human Strength	103	(1)
In Sickness	104	(1)
Steadfast Hope	105	(1)
When One Door Closes	106	(1)
The Way of All Flesh	107	(1)
Your Daily Task	108	(1)
Attitude	109	(1)
Reflect	110	(2)
7 GRATITUDE
The Guest House	112	(2)
Peace Begins Within	114	(1)
To the Gardener of the World	115	(1)
Unknown Blessings	116	(1)
The Gifts of Illness	117	(2)
A Good Prognosis	119	(1)
Sufi Saying	120	(1)
Rainbows	121	(1)
Cancer Caregiver	122	(1)
Divine Gifts	123	(1)
So Very Blessed	124	(1)
Your Monumental Kindness	125	(1)
Handicaps	126	(2)
8 INSPIRATION
May You Be Well	128	(1)
Earth, Teach Me	129	(2)
Stay Well	131	(1)
One Year to Live	132	(1)
Breast-Cancer Benefit	133	(1)
Resting Place	134	(1)
Before It Is Too Late	135	(1)
What Cancer Cannot Do	136	(1)
Rejoice	137	(1)
A New Dimension	138	(1)
Perspective	139	(1)
Restoration Zone	140	(1)
The Road	141	(1)
For As Long As It Matters	142	(1)
Author Index	143	(2)
Permissions and Acknowledgments	145