Description
For many of us, healing is needed only when we are ‘sick’, and is offered by an elite of specially trained ‘experts’ to weak or vulnerable people who are in need of their ‘help’. In Wild Beasts and Angels Michael Mitton challenges these and many other myths and misconceptions about healing and the healing ministry. Using an original and compelling mix of words and images, theology and personal experience, story-telling and biblical reflection, Mitton describes a very different understanding of healing, placing it at the centre of all our lives and of the communities in which we live. He shows that healing is a shared journey in which the healer is often the one who is powerless, and the person who is sick is often the one ministering to the healer. And he wrestles with the mystery of a God who sometimes heals - and who sometimes doesn’t heal. This radical, creative and often moving book faces the difficulties and puzzles that surround healing and the healing ministry with honesty and humility. It is dedicated to ‘friends who have faced the cold sickness of cancer with faith, humanity, hope and humour’