The Healing: One Family's Victorious Struggle with Cancer [Paperback]

Gloria Cassity Stargel (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Bright Morning Publications; 2nd edition (August 2000)
• ISBN-10: 0970014201
• ISBN-13: 978-0970014207
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,777,744 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Inspiration for Hope and Healing, February 12, 2001

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Tom Lagana - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing: One Family's Victorious Struggle with Cancer (Paperback)

This wonderful book is an inspiration to those faced with this challenge and also helps others to relate better to those who are. We are pleased to have Gloria's work under consideration for our book-in-progress, Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Like Having a Friend..., December 11, 2000

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Jan Ledford "EyeWrite books" (Franklin, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Healing (Paperback)

Cancer has affected nearly every family in some way, including mine. What you need when the doctor says cancer is a friend who has gone through it. Someone who can offer hope. The Healing is the story of Gloria Stargel's cancer journey and how she found hope for her husband (the cancer victim) and herself.

But it was a pilgrimage full of denial, defeat, and anger. Gloria's book reads like a diary of these emotions. Emotions experienced by everyone touched by cancer. At one point she wrote, "I felt as though we lived in a phantom `world between'---that we had been sentenced to a world inhabited only by those not fully alive and not fully dead."

Yet interspersed with the despair, it is obvious that God began ministering to her...almost without her realizing it at first. Tidbits of scripture and other quotes throughout the book show the roller coaster she was riding, and the hope offered at every turn. When Gloria surrendered their situation and herself to God, an internal healing began that was no less miraculous than the physical healing experienced by her husband.

If cancer is a part of your life, especially in the here-and-now, you need to read The Healing. You'll feel that you have a friend, someone who's been this way, holding your hand. And like Gloria, you'll know that whatever may come, there is one Hand that will never let you go.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healing Today, November 17, 2000

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"baumgarm" (Waynesboro, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healing (Paperback)

In this fast-paced, high-tech day and age, a terminal diagnosis for a loved one can bring "the world" to a screeching halt. Perspectives change. Time and disease become antagonists. Where can one turn for help...for hope? Twenty-six years ago Gloria and Joe Stargel faced this situation. Joe's surgeon told them that "medically speaking, nothing can be done for Joe." A rare and deadly cancer had its grip on his body. THE HEALING tells of the Stargels' journey in Faith. The surgeon and oncologist only provided a protocol that might give Joe a bit more time, but no cure. So Gloria turned to the Divine Physician. God answered her prayers. Gloria has written a beautiful, sensitive account of the most difficult time in her life. She has sprinkled poetry and inspirational quotes throughout her story. She has demonstrated her deep faith...without being "preachy". I recommend THE HEALING to anyone who seeks a "Second Opinion", to anyone who seeks reassurance that God still heals today.