Psalms for Healing: Praying with Those in Need [With Ribbons (3)]

by Gretchen Person

Book Overview

Comfort patients, family, and caregivers with the beauty of the Psalms

When Rev. Person worked as a chaplain in a Mayo hospital, patients frequently asked her to read psalms and pray with them. The Psalms contain beautiful, comforting language, but are often surrounded by verses that are not relevant to healing. Person has created a resource that any caregiver-chaplain, nurse, hospice worker, pastor, or family member-will treasure...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806641614
• ISBN13: 9780806641614
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.6" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

Psalms for Healing

This book is excellent for those in ministry to the sick. And it is small enough to carry around easily.

thoughtful, caring, insightful, devotional, timely...

These words come to mind when I think about the work that Pr. Person has given to us. As a pastor I have often floundered through the psalms when doing hospital visits because not every verse is particularly helpful. Pr. Person has arranged the psalms so that they are in a format that is easily accessibe to the reader and hearer while still maintaining Biblical integrity. She has also arranged the psalms in a very helpful schema to deal with the different situations that a person might face in the hospital whether it be a sick child, a new diagnosis, confession and forgiveness or thanksgiving, etc. As a Christian, the psalms have always been a tool to understanding the life of faith, even (and especially) when life goes in some unexpected and/or undesired directions. Once again, this book would be a great introduction and guide to entering into the world of the psalms. Pr. Person even recomends that it may be used as a devotional book for families or individuals who are suffering. I highly recomend this book for all pastors, caregivers and anyone who is suffering or knows someone who is suffering.