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A time to die, a time to live, making and moving beyond end of life decisions, Nancy Magargle

eng

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non fiction

A time to die, a time to live

Nancy Magargle

making and moving beyond end of life decisions

Have you felt He turned a deaf ear when you cried out for His comforting voice? Have you or someone you love been crippled by grief and shame? Poignant and uplifting, A Time to Die, A Time to Live provides a lifeline to anyone gripped in the relentless cycle of grief, guilt, and loss. End-of-life decisions and the loss of her beloved daughter, Stacey, drove author Nancy Magargle into a prison of punishing self-condemnation and shattered faith. Her book, A Time to Die, A Time to Live: gives coping strategies to work through crisis and loss; confronts the lies we tell ourselves; Illuminates God's truth; Provides concrete steps to apply God's truth and be freed form guilt to embrace God's love, healing, and comfort, for life!. -- back cover

Contents : Preface: Walking among the clouds -- 1. For such a time as this -- 2. Looking back and inching forward -- 3. Fighting for life -- 4. Will she live if you don't operate? -- 5. The nightmare was real -- 6. The illusion of control becomes the idol of control -- 7. Subborn hope -- 8. Who really cares about Stacey? -- 9. Greyson, first report -- 10. Walking in the light -- 11. The beginning of the end -- 12. Straining to find the path -- 13. David's oath -- 14. Walking in the shadows -- 15. Holding on -- 16. Heavenly provision -- 17. The Shepherd leads -- 18. The fleece -- 19. The pain of withdrawal -- 20. The letter -- 21. Saying goodbye -- 22. The forks in the road - my crisis of belief -- 23. Satan's prison, God's promise -- 24. Mortar for my prison walls -- 25. Walking toward forgiveness -- 26. Finding myself along the way -- 27. Rescued by His love -- 28. Revelations of His love -- Epilogue : The pilgrimage - True North to home -- Resources -- Addendum One, Medical references -- Addendum Two, The way of pain -- Addendum Three, Revelations of His love - list -- Addendum Four, Chronology of Stacey's decline -- Notes -- Acknowledgments

Making and moving beyond end of life decisions