Healing Presence

With elegant simplicity, Rev. Dr. Joanna Seibert presents glimpses of life at the intersection of medicine and religion. In a collection of true stories, she describes events we all recognize-the death of a child or the anguish of losing one's mental or motor facilities-and truthfully presents the doubts and difficulties of both herself as a physician/deacon and those she visits and treats. Each true riveting story is preceded by a Scripture and followed with a prayer, and as we move through the events that Seibert describes, we begin to realize that the resources she names are available to us all. Interweaving the diagnostic skills of a physician's eye and a pastor's heart, Seibert probes with reverent clarity the mysteries of human suffering and healing presence.