Jamie Moon’s Reviews > Hurting Yet Whole: Reconciling Body and Spirit in Chronic Pain and Illness > Status Update

“…disability is an open minority that any of us might join at any time, especially as we get older.” p. 162

“Wholeness must embrace our current brokenness, or it is not wholeness, but nostalgia.” p.167

"This understanding of God's world and our role in it has helped me to let go of the desire to ‘go back' to some idyllic past where I had no pain and things were ‘as they should be.’ I certainly grieve my losses. Yet I don’t believe that God will push the reset button…Rather, this ‘better world' will involve transformation, not a rewind, of our pain. The way out is not back, but through.” p.45-46

“Being fully human is to inhabit the wild mysteries of our bodies and trust that, because Christ was a body, and still is a body, we don’t need to fear this place. We can say, it is good, because Christ meets us here.” p. 29