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Finding Hope and Meaning in Suffering
Author(s): Dr Trystan Owain Hughes (Author)
- Publisher: S.P.C.K. Publishing
- Publication Date: 15 April 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780281062492
- ISBN-13: 0281062498
Book Description
Everyone suffers at some time or other – it’s simply a part of life. But however bad things seem, we are never completely helpless. For the deeply affirming truth is that we can choose how to respond to adverse circumstances. Trystan Owain Hughes suggests that learning how to suffer and how to wait patiently may be the secret of finding joy in our lives. Diagnosed with a degenerative spinal condition, he was surprised to discover that, instead of increasing his unhappiness, it spurred him on to seek out sources of hope and meaning. The book opens by encouraging us to take a step back from our anxieties and worries and rest in the love of God. We then explore five areas where that love may be found in the midst of pain: in nature, memory, art, laughter and other people. By becoming conscious of the echoes of the transcendent in these areas, we will gain new strength. And paradoxically, through facing our suffering, learn to truly live.
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About the Author
Trystan Owain Hughes is Chaplain at Cardiff University. He attained an MTh from Oxford University and a PhD from Bangor University, Wales. He is the author of Winds of Change (UWP, 1999), Finding Hope and Meaning in Suffering (SPCK, 2010), and The Compassion Quest (SPCK, 2013). He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 4, and BBC Radio Wales, is on the theological commission that assists the bench of Welsh Bishops, and lectures at Cardiff University and St Michael’s Theological College, Llandaff. His blog is www.trystanowainhughes.com/blog
