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Peace in the Storm: Meditations on Chronic Pain and Illness
Millions of Americans experience pain every day of their lives, their conditions unalleviated by the myriad medications and treatments available today. Maureen Pratt, who has had lupus for more than a decade, is intimately aware of the toll chronic pain takes on patients and their families.
In this practical and spiritual guide, she shares how she navigates through the frustrations, fears, and complexities of living with chronic pain and illness.
Using a combination of Bible passages, her own observations and insights, and prayer, Pratt provides help on issues that include dealing with isolation, coping with medical expenses, and learning to say no. Written with unstinting honesty and humor, Peace in the Storm will help readers identify their own spiritual and physical needs.
In this practical and spiritual guide, she shares how she navigates through the frustrations, fears, and complexities of living with chronic pain and illness.
Using a combination of Bible passages, her own observations and insights, and prayer, Pratt provides help on issues that include dealing with isolation, coping with medical expenses, and learning to say no. Written with unstinting honesty and humor, Peace in the Storm will help readers identify their own spiritual and physical needs.
352 pages, Paperback
First published April 19, 2005
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Maureen Pratt
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During the pandemic, I took a break from book writing to earn a Master of Theological Studies and now, after graduation, I am writing and publishing - and developing a new ministry! The Peace in the Storm Project is a unique, church-based model for accompaniment with and for people who live with chronic illness and pain. My devotional, Peace in the Storm: Meditations on Chronic Pain and Illness (Image/Penguin Random House) is the basis for the ministry, and my newest book, Beyond Pain: Job, Jesus, and Joy Revised Edition (Galilee Road Publishing) is also part of the ministry's resources. I am delighted by how the Holy Spirit is moving in and through my work! Stay tuned for more wonderful developments as the months and years move ahead!
During the pandemic, I took a break from book writing to earn a Master of Theological Studies and now, after graduation, I am writing and publishing - and developing a new ministry! The Peace in the Storm Project is a unique, church-based model for accompaniment with and for people who live with chronic illness and pain. My devotional, Peace in the Storm: Meditations on Chronic Pain and Illness (Image/Penguin Random House) is the basis for the ministry, and my newest book, Beyond Pain: Job, Jesus, and Joy Revised Edition (Galilee Road Publishing) is also part of the ministry's resources. I am delighted by how the Holy Spirit is moving in and through my work! Stay tuned for more wonderful developments as the months and years move ahead!
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December 1, 2011
A must-read for a person or family member with chronic illness. It leads each chapter with a Bible verse or a meaningful quotation, if I remember correctly. This makes a great gift -- not just those with lupus but other conditions affecting daily life in the physical & spiritual realms. The books deals with issues facing the chronically ill from how to travel, meet new friends, deal with difficult family members to ways of learning to cope and accept the diagnosis with Scripture to aid in the process. Each chapter also comes with a prayer the author has written. Impressed with the wide-range of topics discussed and the approach to those topics as related to Scripture.
September 17, 2025
Not a book I could ever read enough.
Devoured the whole thing like a desert lacking up moisture.
A much needed tool. I will have to re-read it.
And re-read it again.
Hoping I can commit these powerful pages to memory.
Devoured the whole thing like a desert lacking up moisture.
A much needed tool. I will have to re-read it.
And re-read it again.
Hoping I can commit these powerful pages to memory.
September 21, 2017
Thoughts for those whose minds are clouded with illness and pain. Maureen Pratt is the fellow sufferer who walks beside you and tell you that God has neither forsaken you nor abandoned you.
February 8, 2024
Excellent
August 4, 2013
Peace in the Storm, Meditations on Chronic Pain and Illness by Maureen Pratt
This book is full of insights that will help you see pain and chronic illness in a new light. Peace in the Storm offers tips and insights that will help you understand chronic illness and give you the perfect scriptures to help you deal with the repercussions of illness. The scriptures bring you one step closer to God. The author Maureen Pratt’s faith comes through loud and clear, she starts each chapter with a scripture, then shares from her experiences with chronic illness and closes out with prayer. If you are looking for peace in the mist of your storm this is the book for you. You will find comfort, encouragement and will be inspired. This book could even be used as a daily devotional. I highly recommend this book for anyone suffering from chronic illness or caring for someone ill. I suffer from a chronic illness and found great comfort among the pages of this book that I plan on sharing with other hurting souls. I want thank the author Maureen Pratt, The Book Club Network Inc. and Galilee and Doubleday publishing by Random House for writing and bringing Christian books to readers like me.
This book is full of insights that will help you see pain and chronic illness in a new light. Peace in the Storm offers tips and insights that will help you understand chronic illness and give you the perfect scriptures to help you deal with the repercussions of illness. The scriptures bring you one step closer to God. The author Maureen Pratt’s faith comes through loud and clear, she starts each chapter with a scripture, then shares from her experiences with chronic illness and closes out with prayer. If you are looking for peace in the mist of your storm this is the book for you. You will find comfort, encouragement and will be inspired. This book could even be used as a daily devotional. I highly recommend this book for anyone suffering from chronic illness or caring for someone ill. I suffer from a chronic illness and found great comfort among the pages of this book that I plan on sharing with other hurting souls. I want thank the author Maureen Pratt, The Book Club Network Inc. and Galilee and Doubleday publishing by Random House for writing and bringing Christian books to readers like me.
January 3, 2009
A series of short essays on a variety of topics related to living with chronic pain and illness, all centered on Biblical references.
did-not-finish
August 5, 2013Wayyyy religion-heavy. For all that I knew it referenced Biblical passages, this book is not at all what I was expecting.
September 26, 2015
Read while recovering from foot surgery. Helpful and uplifting.
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