Book Review: Hurting Yet Whole

 

Hurting Yet Whole

Reconciling Body and Spirit in Chronic Pain and Illness

by Liuan Huska

InterVarsity Press 

IVP

 Christian 

Pub Date 08 Dec 2020

I am reviewing a copy of Hurting Yet Whole through InterVarsity Press and Netgalley:

If you are dealing with Chronic Pain or Illness, I’d highly recommend hurting Yet Whole.

What if the places we fear the most about our bodies, the vulnerability to illness or pain is the exact place where God meets us most fully?

The author Liuan Huska went through years of chronic pain herself and wondered wondered why God seemed absent and questioned some of the common assumptions about healing. What do we do when our bodies don't work the way they should? What is healing, when one has a chronic illness? Can we still be whole when our bodies suffer? The Christian story speaks to our experiences of pain and illness. In the embodiment of Jesus' life, we see an embrace of the body and all of the discomfort and sufferings of being human. Countering a Gnosticism that pits body against spirit.

In this book Huska takes her readers on on a journey of exploring how healing is not an escape from the limits of the body, but becoming whole as souls in bodies and bodies with souls. As chronic pain forces us to pay attention to our bodies' vulnerability, we come to embrace the fullness of our broken yet beautiful bodies.  She helps redefine what it means to find healing and wholeness when you are experiencing on going pain.

I give Hurting Yet Whole five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!