In age reborn, by grace sustained : one woman's journey through aging and chronic illness
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog5724
- Author
- McLeod, Thelma-Anne (Sr. Thelma-Anne), 1928-2011
- Publication Date
- c2007
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- RC 382 M45 2007
- Place of Publication
- Toronto ON
- Publisher
- ABC Publishing, Anglican Book Centre
- Publication Date
- c2007
- Physical Description
- 142 p. ; 21.4 x 14 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "Path Books".
- "[By] Thelma-Anne McLeod, SSJD".
- "With clarity and candour, and from personal experience with Parkinson's Disease, Sister Thelma-Anne explores the issues that face individuals with chronic, progressive illness, their care partners, family, and friends. Helpful suggestions for coping with chronic illness are included. Spiritual reflections and prayers for individuals and study groups deepen our understanding of the transforming power of God's love. Sister Thelma-Anne invites is all, whatever our faith or philosophy, to share in her story -- its joys and frustrations, its lessons, its struggles, and above all, its many blessings". -- back cover.
- Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Life before Parkinson's -- The Stranger Who Came to Stay -- Through the Gate -- The Long Haul Begins -- A Journey Just Begun -- Healing Where There Is No Cure -- Intermezzo -- Coming Home to a Strange Land -- The Way of Wisdom -- Bridging the Great Divide -- A Whiff of Tribulation -- The Struggle and the Stripping -- A Taste of Resurrection -- Some Down-to-Earth Suggestions.
- Subjects
- McLeod, Thelma-Anne (Sr. Thelma-Anne), 1928-2011
- Parkinson's disease - Patients - Canada - Biography
- Chronically ill - Religious life
- Chronic diseases - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Aging - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Faith
- Aging - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Faith - Anglican authors
- ISBN
- 1-55126-498-6
- 978-1-55126-498-1
- Call Number
- RC 382 M45 2007
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)