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Overview
Beyond sending a "get-well card," many people know little about supporting someone through a serious illness -- let alone passing through one themselves. Life on Hold answers the need of many people who face -- or may soon be faced with -- a health crisis of longer duration. Written by a father and daughter who lost their wife and mother to an extended battle with cancer, this sensitive personal journal is dotted with illustrations from real-life survivors. Each chapter offers tools for dealing with the challenges of physical illness. A practical, spiritual handbook, it shows sufferers, ministers, lay workers, family, and friends how to trust God during a season of recovery or release. Scripture and counsel on getting through the first several weeks are among this book's most rare and precious gifts.Synopsis
Beyond sending a "get-well card," many people know little about supporting someone through a serious illness — let alone passing through one themselves. Life on Hold answers the need of many people who face — or may soon be faced with — a health crisis of longer duration. Written by a father and daughter who lost their wife and mother to an extended battle with cancer, this sensitive personal journal is dotted with illustrations from real-life survivors. Each chapter offers tools for dealing with the challenges of physical illness. A practical, spiritual handbook, it shows sufferers, ministers, lay workers, family, and friends how to trust God during a season of recovery or release. Scripture and counsel on getting through the first several weeks are among this book's most rare and precious gifts.
Publishers Weekly
What should we say to people who are dealing with a terminal illness? To their families? Any Christian who has ever felt helpless in the face of disease and death will welcome Life on Hold: Finding Hope in the Face of Terminal Illness, written by the father-daughter team of Laurel Seiler Brunvoll and David G. Seiler. The authors speak poignantly from their own family experience of losing a mother/wife to ovarian cancer. Despite its ragged and sometimes confusing organization, the book's frank advice and faithful perspective will offer great comfort to many Christians. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.