A Christian Approach to Overcoming Disability
A Christian Approach to Overcoming Disability: A Doctor's Story Elaine Leong Eng,
Publisher: Haworth Press
ISBN: 0789022583
Edition: Paperback; 2003-12
Summary:
Learn how faith and psychological insight can combine to help
Christians overcome physical disabilities! After being diagnosed with
retinitis pigmentosa, Dr. Elaine Leong Eng, author of "Martha,
Martha": How Christians Worry, knew she had to make important life
changes. This genetic disease would soon cause her eyesight to fail.
Her impending blindness meant that she would no longer be able to
practice as an obstetrician/gynecologist. Her family life would never
be the same, nor would her self-image. A Christian Approach to
Overcoming Disability: A Doctor's Story is the poignant and inspiring
story of Dr. Engs ultimately triumphant struggle with an untreatable
illness and a life-changing disability. Once I heard the diagnosis, I
knew it was Gods way of granting my prayer to be a full-time mom to
my babies. God had prepared my heart to accept this news. This
so-called "tragedy" in my life was very much for the good. I had the
chance to "see" and care for my children during those precious young
years. To play with them, sing songs, teach them, feed them, and do
all those wonderful mothering things that many take for granted. And
now that they are grown, I can see in my minds eye all those great
images and memories. I enjoyed motherhood so much that I would not
have changed my life in any way if given the chance. This
autobiographical book articulates the challenges faced by the blind
and offers faith-based and psychological techniques for coping with
disability. It highlights dozens of Scriptural passages that can
provide an important foundation for coping, and draws upon Dr. Engs
experience as a psychiatrist to identify important issues and
feelings about blindness and its psychological and emotional impact
on every aspect of life. In this insightful book, youll find:
firsthand information about the experience of becoming disabled, and
about living with, even celebrating, that disability and the new
opportunities it presents insight about what family, friends,
students, and colleagues go through when someone close to them
becomes disabled biblical references that demonstrate the importance
of God in meeting physical challenges important scriptural
foundations for coping practical techniques for coping with
disabilityfrom both religious and psychological perspectives advice
on overcoming the feeling of being "damaged goods" and other problems
of self-esteem common to the disabled A Christian Approach to
Overcoming Disability will inspire you with its message of hope. It
offers insights about finding inner peace no matter what hand life
has dealt you and making the most of whatever God has planned for
your life. Anyone who knows a Christian who has any type of physical
disability will benefit from reading this book.
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