Helen Steiner Rice-The Healing Touch: Poems, Letters, and Life Stories

The Healing Touch is as much a guidebook for personal healing as it is a tribute to Mrs. Rice's inspiring qualities.The book is divided into six sections, each dealing with a specific loneliness, depression, disability, infirmity, adversity, and loss. In every chapter Mrs. Rice's poems and previously unpublished letters, and the testimonials of her readers, witness to the way her life and work have inspired others and continue to inspire them today.Based on twelve healing attitudes Mrs. Rice cultivated in herself, The Healing Touch gives readers helpful spiritual wisdom and practical advice for confronting and learning from all of life's challenges. With its rich, two-color format, this is the perfect gift to give someone special -- even yourself.

Helen Steiner Rice's life could probably be summed up in the fact that she always met every circumstance with a grateful heart, trusting that God worked out all things for the best. Pollitt and Wiltse draw upon Rice's poems, letters and anecdotes to tell the poet's life story. Rice bore many adversities in her life, including the suicide of her young husband and a painful degenerative disease that led to her infirmity. Yet, as the authors demonstrate, Rice met these adversities with an enduring confidence in God's love and providence, and such attitudes are abundant in her poetry and letters. In addition to recounting Rice's biography, the authors also include testimonies of those influenced by her life and work. The book is divided into six sections dealing with healing the pain of loss, adversity, loneliness, depression, disability and infirmity. In each section, Rice's elegant poetry acts as a light shining through the darkness of pain. While some readers may find the book saccharine, Rice's fans will flock to it.

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