With Faces to the Evening Sun: Faith Stories from the Nursing Home

By Richard L. Morgan

Endorsements: ""This is a book of mature wisdom--straightforward, lucid, inspiring. Richard Morgan has grasped two essential realities: that people live as well as die in nursing homes and that God meets people here with unyielding love."" --Henry C. Simmons, former Director of Center on Aging, Union Presbyterian Seminary ""Dick Morgan has creatively and insightfully reflected the struggles of aging as lived in the never failing presence of God. The reader is provided an image of the human spirit strengthened by God to give life perspective and purpose, even when the body becomes more frail. The Scripture readings, devotions, and prayers will resonate with each caregiver, care receiver, and family member as they face together the adventures and challenges of a rich new phase of life."" --W. Ray Inscoe, Director of Pastoral Care, Westminster Canterbury, Richmond, VA ""As a chaplain in a long care facility, I often discover that residents are without devotional reading to nourish their faith. This work will be a source of inspiration and comfort to older people who are struggling with what meaning their life has in a nursing home, when 'someone else takes [them] where they do not want to go.' It makes them aware that God still has a plan for their lives."" --Philip Jamison, Chaplain, Redstone Highlands, North Huntingdon, PA

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625648731
• ISBN13: 9781625648730
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Book to Share with Family Members of Nursing Home Residents

I work with nursing home residents and often find myself trying to explain our work to family members. They don't seem to understand that good things happen here, as well as some of the bad things. Morgan's book shows the flip side of nursing homes....that it is a place of joy and courage, as well as a place of pain and suffering. I recommend this book to family members so they can get a better picture of what we do for this growing population of older people.

A Book for Unappreciated Nursing Assistants

I have served as a chaplain in a Nursing Home and the unheralded heroes/heroines are the nursing assistants. Grossly unpaid, usually unappreciated, they do the "dirty" work that others avoid. Morgan's book is one I recommend to CNAs, so they can realize the value of their work as a ministry, not just a job. Many have told me that it helped affirm them, create a feeling of value in what they do, and make them feel more appreciated. For that reason it is a book caregivers need to have.

A much needed antidote for bashing Nursing Homes

So many people either bash nursing homes because of alleged horror stories of abuse of residents, or avoid them like the plague. I love this book because it shows the humanity of people who live there, and those who help them make this their HOME

Uplifting meditations for sharing in a nursing home

I am a minister who leads worship services at several nursing homes. I always search for ways to bring courage, comfort, and joy to the people who struggle to find hope while living there. This book glows with wise and inspiring meditations on numberous joys and struggles of living in a nursing home. It will serve as food for my messages for many months to come. These stories and reflections focus on the powerful issues facing people in the nursing home, and offer both wisdom and encouragement as the best of stories can do.

A book I recommend to all nursing homes residents and staff

Too often people view nursing homes as doom andgloom, but this surprising book presents a morepositive picture of heroism, faith and humor in nursing homes. For residents a must, but alsofor caregivers to realize that their "work"is also a ministry.