Stripped: At the Intersection of Cancer, Culture, and Christ
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0829442626 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
“Heather King’s memoir of her journey with breast cancer is astonishing. It is painful, funny, compassionate, and unforgettable. It is amazing.” – Michael Leach, author of Why Stay Catholic? Unexpected Answers to a Life-Changing Question. Her honesty strips away all pretense and invites us into her mind and heart so that page by page we feel what she feels and understand what she comes to understand, that the potential for healing lies within ourselves. ‘The real tragedy,’ she writes, ‘is to die with our truest song unsung – to die without recognizing that our suffering has meaning.’ Stripped has profound spiritual meaning for anyone who reads it
through cancer as I read this book and I liked how she researched information and did not just rely I was going through cancer as I read this book and I liked how she researched information and did not just rely on what the Doctors said. I could feel her emotions. Being Catholic I could relate to how she put her trust in God. It was a good read.. Learned a great deal! Very well-written. The author reveals her inner thoughts so well. It is a book I will definitely reread. Learned a great deal!. Sara said Anyone facing tough medical decisions should read this book.. Everything Heather King writes is fascinating. This book really opens up the medical world and how to navigate and get the info you need to make a good decision for yourself. This would be especially helpful to people with breast cancer.The book also reminds us of our own wounds and sorrows and how to live and grow despite them or more properly because of them.
The story of Stripped demonstrates how King’s medical and spiritual journey led her to a place of freedom in Christ, where she could make an informed and faith-filled decision about her course of treatment and ultimately, accept her vulnerability. King learned, as we all must, that healing means so much more than simply “getting well.”. A diagnosed tumor forced Heather King to this crisis of mortality, to live at the crossroads of uncertainty, belief, fear, culture, and modern medicine. Only her faith in Christ, the Great Physician, helped her sort through the crippling uncertainty and choose her best way forward.Stripped is a heartfelt expression of profound Catholic faith in the face of a cancer diagnosis. It chronicles King’s informed decision not to blindly declare “war on her cancer” but to carefully examine all the medical evidence available and to choose to bring God into her decision making, even if that meant going against established medical advice. Cancer—that unfair, indiscriminate, devastating disease—affects everyone at some point, whether a family member, a friend, or ourselves. It is a life-altering event of seismic