Broken Body, Healing Spirit: Lectio Divina and Living with Illness

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Summary: bodily illness as sacred text
Review: Reflecting on her own experience of serious physical illness, and using her long experience with the Benedictine practice of "lectio divina" (slow prayerful reading of scripture as a way of encountering God), author Mary Earle provides in this book an excellent guide, both compassionate and practical, for anyone living with serious illness.

In fact, this book presents a clear and thoughtful way for any of us, presently ill or not, to learn the language of our bodies, to see all experience (even when it is initially frightening and unwelcome) as sacred text full of meaning, to "read" our lives as ongoing gifts from God.