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Loving Your Friend through Cancer: Moving beyond "I'm Sorry" to Meaningful Support Paperback – May 31, 2018
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"It's cancer."
When you hear the two words you dread most from someone you care about, you know at once that your friend's life has been turned upside down.
Whether she's a good friend, a best friend, or just an acquaintance, you want to be supportive. But how can you understand what she’s going through enough to know what she needs? What can you say besides "If you need anything . . . anything at all . . ."?
Marissa Henley is here to help show you the way. A cancer survivor herself, she lets you in on what having cancer feels like and what your friend truly needs. She prepares you to support your friend with both knowledge and compassion. And she offers specific action steps and practical support resources to help you show love in the day-to-day details.
Cancer is a life-altering challenge, but Marissa will equip and empower you to walk alongside your friend with love and support.
- Print length264 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherP&R Publishing
- Publication dateMay 31, 2018
- Dimensions5.6 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
- ISBN-101629953547
- ISBN-13978-1629953540
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This immanently practical book gives gospel-infused advice from a fellow pilgrim who has been shepherded through the valley of the shadow of death. Marissa calls the Body of Christ to engage head, heart and hands to come alongside those who are suffering. -- Karen Hodge, PCA women’s ministry coordinator
Anyone who’s been touched by cancer, in any degree, will be helped and comforted by this beautiful book. Marissa addresses a difficult, life-changing battle with eloquence, truth, and intense practicality, inviting us into her cancer story and to the God who is her hope. I see Jesus in Marissa as she proclaims him through her sufferings, and I pray he will equip many readers through her wise counsel in these pages. -- Kristen Wetherell, coauthor, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical Reflections to Help You Grasp God’s Purpose in Your Suffering
Marissa Henley has written an excellent resource for those of us who have friends struggling with cancer. This will now be the first place I'll go as I seek to care for people with any serious illness (not just cancer). Marissa's practical helps are worth the price of the book. -- Dave Furman, senior pastor, Redeemer Church of Dubai; author, Being There: How to Love Those Who Are Hurting and Kiss the Wave: Embracing God in Your Trials
"When you walk beside someone with the life-changing diagnosis of cancer, knowing what to do and say is so difficult. As a professional counselor, I’m excited for people in that position to have the honest perspective that Marissa brings to these difficult circumstances. And on a personal note, as someone who has lost three family members to cancer over the last three years, I wish I’d had this book to share with our community.” -- Michelle Nietert, clinical director, Community Counseling Associates; Counselor Thoughts podcaster; speaker; author
This book is for women whose friends have or had cancer, but I am not a woman and I was helped, encouraged in my own physical battles, filled with endless ideas on how to love, and refreshed by Marissa’s wisdom on what words help and what don’t. Imagine the church as a community that wisely loves those with all kinds of physical problems―fewer foolish words, lots of meals and other practical initiatives, and praying over the long haul. This book will contribute to that vision. Your good intentions will be shaped into practical, even confident care and compassion. This is a great book. -- Ed Welch, Counselor and Faculty Member, Christian Counseling and Educational Foundation
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- Publisher : P&R Publishing; 1st edition (May 31, 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 264 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1629953547
- ISBN-13 : 978-1629953540
- Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.6 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #366,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #500 in Cancer (Books)
- #513 in Christian Death & Grief
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Marissa Henley is a survivor of a rare cancer who writes about faith, friendship, motherhood and cancer at www.marissahenley.com. Most days, you’ll find her drinking a latte while shuttling her three kids around in a minivan, wondering if the dog will ever learn to stay and if she’ll ever love cooking as much as her husband loves eating.
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The book consisted of thirteen chapters. All the chapters were tremendously helpful. The first ten chapters is focused on ministering to a friend who has cancer. Chapter eleven shifts the focus on ministering to friends or church members in which their spouse, parent or child have cancer. Chapter twelve discusses “when there’s no cure” while chapter thirteen discusses the topic of supporting a friend who survived cancer.
I cannot stress enough how helpful this book has been. It exceeded my expectations. It made me think a lot about things I haven’t considered before. I found in the beginning of the book the discussion of circles of friendship one is at in relations to the person with the cancer tremendously helpful; it allows one to consider just how much one can help and also what the assistance would look like according to where you fall in the circle of friendship; yet one shouldn’t despair if one want to help more as time would often bring those who are consistently helpful in the outer circle into the more inner circle. It is a realistic framework that I haven’t even thought about before. Yet this isn’t just theoretical as the author gave a lot of practical suggestions of what assistance to someone with cancer look like according to one’s place in the circle of friendship. The chapter on unhelpful religious platitudes was also a great read in the book and shouldn’t be missed. Also the book’s discussion about the struggle of those surviving cancer was also an exceptional chapter in a book that has amazing chapters. I never realize how hard it is for those who survive cancer from the fear of cancer coming back to the reality that things aren’t the same like it was before the cancer and also the skeptical cynicism that cancer truly has disappeared. The likelihood of the return of cancer is also very probable which affect one’s outlook and planning in life.
I can’t stress enough just how life changing this book for me as a young pastor. It wasn’t just helpful in terms of ministering to those with cancer but it was also helpful for me to be better equipped and more considerate in how I minister to those with other serious illness. As I said in the beginning God really used this book providentially in my ministry. I believe many others who read this book have been tremendously enriched, equipped and ministered by it. Maybe the next person who can benefit from this book is you.
NOTE: This book was provided to me free by P&R Publishing and Net Galley without any obligation for a positive review. All opinions offered above are mine unless otherwise stated or implied.
Cancer is inevitable, it is a part of all of our lives in one way or another. I believe that is why we need resources like this on our shelves; we need to be prepared and ready to love in the hard places. I have never had Cancer, but I have struggled with other diagnoses and health issues that have rocked my life. While it speaks directly to Loving Your Friend Through Cancer, this book is a beautiful guide to loving through anything life altering your friend faces. From loss and diagnoses to any emotionally painful life change this book has a beautiful framework for being a friend that stays through the storm, the aftermath, and into her new version of life. Because whether your friend is walking through Cancer personally or with a loved one, there is no going back only forward into a completely new version of life. I highly recommend this book to you and to any of your friends who are walking with their loved ones through Cancer. This book brought comfort and purpose to my role as friend when it feels like there is no way I could possibly help. There is. Our friend needs us more than ever.