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"God. We Need You.": A Year of Prayer in a Hospital Chapel (Resources on Faith, Sickness, Grief and Doubt) Paperback – June 17, 2020

by Jon Swanson (Author)
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Every Sunday, people listen to readings from the Bible and then listen to someone pray. That happens around the world in a variety of settings. And the prayers respond to the setting and the scripture and the people. When a hospital chaplain prays in a hospital chapel every Sunday, the prayer represents the conversations with people and God that have happened that week. The words to God on behalf of the people must reflect knowing that people are living and dying, knowing that the listeners are facing good diagnoses and bad, the beginning and ending of life. This is a collection of a year of those Sunday morning prayers, based on Year C of the Revised Common Lectionary.
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  1. Part of series
    Resources on Faith, Sickness, Grief and Doubt
  2. Print length
    125 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    June 17, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.32 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-13
    979-8646808036
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Some hospitals convert closets to chapels by adding a table and a Bible and a chair. Our hospital chapel is deceptively beautiful. We have simple stained glass, wood walls, upholstered chairs, designed colors. There are fifty chairs and a keyboard. There is a blown-glass font, a small side chapel where the Tabernacle holds the host for the Catholic masses.

It is a beautiful, quiet, calming space, where I once found a woman weeping at the base of the stained glass cross. We prayed. Her child eventually recovered. But it's a constant reminder that in hospitals, beauty and pain are always present.

Each Sunday, I stand in that chapel. Nancy, my wife, plays a brief prelude. I welcome the people watching the service live or by recording. I read a psalm, we sing one or two verses of an old hymn. I read the reading from the Old Testament, and a reading from the New Testament. And then I pray.

When I started as a hospital chaplain, I didn't write out my prayers. I'm from a tradition that is more spontaneous. But somewhere along the line, I realized that I wasn't very coherent in my spontaneous prayers.  Because I'm a hospital chaplain. And on any given Sunday morning, before the service I've talked to a family expecting their loved one to die before the day is over. I've responded to the Emergency Department where a person heading to church ran off the road. I've been part of a search for family for someone who has no one close. I know that before the day is over, my colleagues and I will witness death.

So I started writing my prayers.

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Some hospitals convert closets to chapels by adding a table and a Bible and a chair. Our hospital chapel is deceptively beautiful. We have simple stained glass, wood walls, upholstered chairs, designed colors. There are fifty chairs and a keyboard. There is a blown-glass font, a small side chapel where the Tabernacle holds the host for the Catholic masses.

It is a beautiful, quiet, calming space, where I once found a woman weeping at the base of the stained glass cross. We prayed. Her child eventually recovered. But it's a constant reminder that in hospitals, beauty and pain are always present.

Each Sunday, I stand in that chapel. Nancy, my wife, plays a brief prelude. I welcome the people watching the service live or by recording. I read a psalm, we sing one or two verses of an old hymn. I read the reading from the Old Testament, and a reading from the New Testament. And then I pray.

When I started as a hospital chaplain, I didn't write out my prayers. I'm from a tradition that is more spontaneous. But somewhere along the line, I realized that I wasn't very coherent in my spontaneous prayers. Because I'm a hospital chaplain. And on any given Sunday morning, before the service I've talked to a family expecting their loved one to die before the day is over. I've responded to the Emergency Department where a person heading to church ran off the road. I've been part of a search for family for someone who has no one close. I know that before the day is over, my colleagues and I will witness death.

So I started writing my prayers.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08BDK4Y3M
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (June 17, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 125 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8646808036
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.32 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 15 ratings

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Jon Swanson helps people and organizations find sense at urgent and important times. Whether sitting at deathbeds with families or sitting over coffee with people needing counsel, Jon's experience allows him to find the words and silence that help meaning come to the surface.

Once upon a time, Jon thought he would use his PhD in Rhetorical Theory and Criticism to teach college students how to analyze speeches. Instead, he has been helping people read the Bible for more than thirty years. In small groups and conversations, he tries to listen to the text, listen to people and connect the two in ways that are practical and often unexpected.

Jon has been a communication prof, college administrator, and an associate pastor. Currently, he's a hospital chaplain and a consultant.

He and Nancy have been married since 1983 and have two adult children and a daughter in heaven. Jon and Nancy walk at least two miles a day, conversing the whole time.

Jon has been blogging since 2005. In 2008, he started 300wordsaday.com, where he writes in simple language about following Jesus, 300 words at a time.

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Patrick & Kristen Riecke
5.0 out of 5 stars Prayers that Give Voice
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2020
This new offering from Jon Swanson gives voice to our deepest longings and needs that are often too personal to articulate. Prayers that helps us face death (and life), prayers that renew our weary souls, and pastoral prayers for the sojourners of faith in a difficult world, these pages are a balm and a source of healing. Part Eugene Peterson and part Henri Nouwen, the heart of this pastor with a penchant for rhetoric pierces through the veil that thins as we approach death, and carries our hearts to God. You can easily picture Jon standing in the chapel of the hospital where he works, praying these prayers over the patients, their families, his coworkers, and you and me. Thank you, Jon.
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James Bromwich
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully insightful and helpful
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2020
Outstanding! Daily reflections and prayers that illuminate Scripture and are directly applicable and impactful to daily life, especially in adding insight and bringing comfort to difficult situations. They are short, simple and easy to understand.
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