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    Intimate Witnesses: Coping with Challenges
    Intimate Witnesses: Coping with Challenges
    Intimate Witnesses: Coping with Challenges
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    Intimate Witnesses: Coping with Challenges

    By Samuel Wong

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    This collection of prayers, poems, and prose is a record of how the author coped with lifes challenges, transcending frustrations over stalled careers, missed opportunities, misunderstanding, and disappointments, and delighting over countless blessings and accomplishments. Not overtly written for inspiration, the book nonetheless is authentically inspiring. It affirms the integrity of life even though one may have to traverse the desert and through the valley of death to reach wholeness. The universe has meaning even though we dont understand it now. The prayers and poems are starters for communion with the mystery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateDec 30, 2014
    ISBN9781503518629
    Intimate Witnesses: Coping with Challenges
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    Samuel Wong

    Sam Wong began formal study of massage therapy in Northern Virginia Community College in 2010 after his retirement from government service. He is trained in Western massage and Chinese tui na. He has created the Virginian Stretch and Yin Yang Touch and has adapted massage to treating fibromyalgia, posttraumatic stress disorder, and scoliosis. Primarily a research massage therapist in private practice, Sam is a board-approved continuing education provider and board-certified in therapeutic massage and bodywork. He promotes caring for caregivers as essential for healthcare and provides free massages to veterans and their caregivers in the DC area.

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