Pain is universal. It comes in all shapes and sizes, but sooner or later it comes to us all. Colleen Peters hopes that what she has learned and written about while living with Multiple Sclerosis for more than a decade will reassure, challenge, and encourage those in pain to see that life can be rich in spite of, and at times because of, pain.
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Colleen Peters. Endearing Pain
Endearing Pain
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
The Long Answer
Neurologists
Another Long Answer
What Makes Life Splendid
An Advent Missive
Morning Has Broken
Enter Einstein
Smooth Seas
The King of the Clouds
The King of Love
God is Good
New Year, New Pain, New Prayer
Happy Spring
My Proverbial Update
A Word From the Trenches
A Large Reality
Playing and Praying
The Lapse of the Year
Abe and Simon
Meandering Miracle
Songbirds and Old Sayings
A Pilgrim’s Progress
A Party
High Midsummer Pomps
Someone Said a Prayer and Someone Asked Some Questions
Driven or Dragged
Pain, Petulance and Praise
A Decade or a Day
Panorama
Bibliography
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Some things can never be put back together . . . but the pieces remain.
Colleen Peters
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I imagine that in February we’ll discuss what my options might be in the event that I’m still not responding favorably to Betaseron. Of course, I continue to hope that remission is just around the corner. If or when it becomes evident that I have progressive MS, I suppose I will want to ask many questions about speed of progression, and what I can expect down the road. But I haven’t really wanted to think about that a whole lot, so I haven’t.
Life is certainly different now, but life is good, because God is good. The Psalm I’m reading this week is 146, “Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! I will praise the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God all my life long . . . Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD their God.” (Ps 146: 1–2, 5 NRSV)
