Alone with God

A patient deals with her cancer and its treatment through a life of the imagination, dreams and God. The author observes a toughness in her and strong feeling. She struggles to bear the aliveness of God as she wrestles with childhood memories of her own mother's death from the same disease. Pra...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of religion and health 2004-09, Vol.43 (3), p.185-200
1. Verfasser: Eigen, Michael
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A patient deals with her cancer and its treatment through a life of the imagination, dreams and God. The author observes a toughness in her and strong feeling. She struggles to bear the aliveness of God as she wrestles with childhood memories of her own mother's death from the same disease. Prayers for her are experienced as "sunbeam fibers" and a "kind of transfusion."
ISSN:0022-4197
1573-6571
DOI:10.1023/B:JORH.0000039652.08957.74