Hurting Yet Whole: Reconciling Body and Spirit in Chronic Pain and Illness by Liuan Huska

Author:Liuan Huska [Huska, Liuan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: healing, Religion, Social Science, Christian Living, Chronic pain;chronic illness;wholeness;healing;Christian healing;theology of suffering;theology of healing;living with pain;embodiment;incarnation;imperfect bodies;why am I not healed;god won't heal me;chronic illness and the gospel;how does God heal;healing in the bible;healing narratives;jesus healed;caring for someone with chronic illness;ministering to someone with chronic illness;chronic illness in the church;fibromyalgia;chronic fatigue syndrome;rheumatoid arthritis, Spiritual Growth, People With Disabilities, Health & Fitness, pain management
ISBN: 9780830848072
Google: E4TrDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2020-12-08T00:09:26.102523+00:00

Bodies matter in God’s call and how we respond, Mercer stresses.17

When my children are sick or when I am in pain, I’d much rather respond to God’s call in a way that transcends the body. In these instances, when I have been up multiple times in the night and can barely keep my eyes open to write down thoughts on a page, the body’s weaknesses seem like an unnecessary liability; they keep me from the work I want to do. I take Weeds’s “owies” as a nuisance, a distraction from the real task at hand.

But then, by God’s grace, I occasionally experience little pockets of a deeper reality. As Weeds quiets down and sucks his thumb, using his other hand to trace the edge of my fingernails over and over (one of those quirky self-soothing tools that all babies develop), I sink into a lull where nothing else matters but being with him, our bodies touching, knowing that my physical presence is a comfort to him, and his to me. He needs me, and I need him. And that is okay. It is good. The fact that I can meet him in his pain and vulnerability is what makes me human. It also teaches him what being human is all about. Weeds is learning, I hope, that it is okay to express his pain to others, okay to ask for help. He is practicing how to relate to God and others in the inevitable suffering he will experience throughout his life.

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