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"Sarah's story-telling is so engaging that you won't want to put this book down, but it is her heart that will grab you. Her observations are honest and gritty at times, and you will wrestle with her through difficult tensions. But in her exploration of brokenness, you will also find grace and beauty. On a planet loaded with pain, death and poverty, Sarah's words are a gentle reminder that each of us is called to participate in the healing of our world as we seek to follow Jesus."―Santiago "Jimmy" Mellado, President and CEO, Compassion International p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} "With a style and voice that is powerful, eloquent, and sincere, Sarah Thebarge takes us on a journey of faith through her own physical struggles as well as those experienced while working in a hospital in Togo, West Africa. Many books attempt to provide answers, but few do it in such a profound way-while walking us through the honest deep questions that arise from the messiness of life and the mystery of God. WELL is an important book that will stand the test of time and it will profoundly shape and inform your understanding of Christian spirituality and the love of God."― p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Ken Wytsma, founder of The Justice Conference and author of Pursuing Justice and Create vs. Copy p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} "With a faith shaped through service and sharpened by real experience, Sarah Thebarge responds from the depths of her heart with the question we should have been asking all along: not, 'why does God allow suffering?,' but 'Why do we?' Sarah's piercing, loving insights in this book, told through the stories of her medical service in West Africa, will grow your faith, improve the questions you ask, and help you on your journey to find better answers. WELL will move you."― p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Michael Wear, author of Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America" Words like love, compassion, courage, and faith easily become cliches ... feel-good sentiments that go on greeting cards. If you read Sarah Thebarge\'s new book, those words will become more meaningful for you than they\'ve ever been ... sturdy, substantial, incandescent. Sarah is a supremely gifted writer and she has a powerful story to tell that is worth your precious time."―Brian D. McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration"This book shook me to my core. It is harrowing and beautiful. It challenged my faith and strengthened it. Sarah asks the hardest questions over and over. She sifts our platitudes until all that\'s left is truth and love strong enough to hold us all."―Sheila Walsh, author, co-host of Life Today p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} "In a brilliant story perfectly capturing the heart of Divine Love, Sarah Thebarge gently proves we are never too far for rescue, never too broken for wholeness, and never too sick to be made well."― p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} Reba Riley, author of Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} span.s2 {font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-kerning: none} "This is a beautiful and soul-piercing story of Jesus with skin on, walking the halls of an underfunded, understaffed and overcrowded hospital in West Africa. Of selfless love poured out. Emptied. And then poured out some more. Told with such self-effacing honesty and emotional transparency, it wholly unmasked my own indifference. I closed the last page in tears, and said, 'Lord, I am so sorry. P|lease help me love like this.' I haven't been this moved by a story since Heavenly Man."― p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 9.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} span.s2 {font: 10.0px Helvetica; font-kerning: none} Charles Martin, New York Times Bestselling Author of Unwritten, Long Way Gone and The Mountain Between Us p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} "In the course of our lives' adventures, some of us learn how to practice compassion, and some of us run away from it. Sarah Thebarge's work reminds me that compassion is not a character trait as much as it is a learned behavior. Pressing through the pain of life, as well as embracing its glory, has the power to teach us that all will be well. Sarah's most recent work demonstrates the truth that compassionate action is something that transforms lives. People who wonder about the cost of transformation owe it to themselves to share in Sarah's journey."― p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Paul Fromberg, Rector of St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco"Sarah Thebarge has penned a magnificent and moving book! It reminds us the question in life isn't 'Why does God allow suffering to happen in the world?' but rather, 'Why do we?" A must read!"―Ian Morgan Cron, author of Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me and The Road Back to You p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} "Sarah Thebarge's WELL doesn't simply teach us about God's love and compassion in a world of suffering, but takes us on a journey with her to experience God's healing in the places most of us would rather not go. Courageous, vulnerable and uplifting, you will be equally enchanted by Sarah's daring and her writing as she reveals the faces of people God loves and Christians often forget."―Sean Palmer, teaching pastor at Ecclesia Houston, author of Unarmed Empire.
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About the Author
SARAH THEBARGE is an international speaker and the author of The Invisible Girls, named a World Magazine 2013 Notable Book. Sarah earned her physician assistant degree at Yale and was studying journalism at Columbia when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In spite of nearly losing her life to cancer, she went on to care for refugees in the United States and provide medical care to people living in the developing world. In addition to practicing medicine in Togo, she served in the Dominican Republic and started a clinic in Kenya for children who lost their parents to AIDS. Sarah is a spokesperson for Compassion International. She returns to San Francisco when she is not traveling the world.
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Product details
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: FaithWords (November 7, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1455553190
ISBN-13: 978-1455553198
Product Dimensions:
5.8 x 1 x 8.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
36 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#560,116 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I was first introduced to Sarah Thebarge when I read her memoir, The Invisible Girls (2013). That story was so powerful, beautifully written, and heart-wrenching. When I heard she had written a new book called WELL, I knew immediately I would have to read it. I devoured the book in a few days and was incredibly taken with it. Sarah's writing is deep, heartfelt, passionate, real, transparent, and overall, so articulate and moving.In the pages of WELL, Sarah takes us on her journey to Togo and shares the stories of the people she cares for in a hospital in rural West Africa. The stories of suffering and loss, healing, hope, and new life are astounding. I found myself caught up in the stories…moved to tears at the suffering and loss, and fully experiencing Sarah's tenderness with those frail patients who were leaving this earthly life; she was literally the hands and feet of Jesus to these fragile ones. I also found myself laughing out loud during lighter moments of humor and joy, such as playing soccer with the sweet “FIFA Boys†in the nearby village.This book has too many incredibly thought-provoking experiences, stories, and reflections, to mention here. However, at least one takeaway I had from this book is that it challenged my own thoughts and attitudes on suffering, compassion, and serving others.In the midst of a serious bout of malaria, Sarah examines the nature of compassion. Sarah writes, “One night I woke up in the early hours, sweaty and thirsty, unable to fall back asleep. As I lay there in the dark, I started thinking about the word compassion, which comes from the Latin words co, which means “with,†and passion, from the word pati, which means “to suffer.†So the word compassion literally means “to suffer with.†I had always thought of compassionate people as people with tender hearts. But after my Togo experience, I realized that in order to practice compassion, your heart needs to be tender but the rest of you— including your emotions and your commitment and your will— needs to be tough as nails. Compassion, in its most extreme forms, is not cute; it is costly. It isn’t always sweet; sometimes it is downright scary. Compassion makes you suffer and sweat and smell. It requires you to pour yourself out, sometimes, until there’s nothing left. Togo gave me a new appreciation for Jesus. Instead of having sympathy for the human condition, Emmanuel, God With Us, came down to suffer with and for us. He took the cup of hardship, loss, grief, pain, and death, and he drank it to the dregs. Maybe, I thought as I lay in the dark that night in Togo, maybe Jesus was calling me to that same level of compassion, calling me to love the world at a great personal cost that I never would’ve chosen if it was up to me. To take the cup of suffering and drink it all, down to the dregs. I didn’t know yet what radical compassion would look like for me when I got back to the United States, but in Togo, when the sun came up the next morning, for me, having compassion meant picking up my nearly empty water bottle, walking over to the clinic, and seeing patients in a malodorous, muggy exam room while I was hot and thirsty and tired. It meant sharing with the Togolese people in this hardship, drinking the cup of suffering down to the dregs. Down to the very last drop.â€These are powerful words. I am challenged and encouraged and “spurred on toward love and good deeds†after reading these words. This is such a great reminder that compassion, love, and service—especially to the least of these—is not a sweet sentiment, but instead is costly and often painful. Ultimately though, this is what Jesus demonstrated and modeled for us and it is the best way to live. Sarah shows us an amazing example of this level of compassion in WELL. This book will challenge you and encourage you and will change you (if you let it!). I cannot recommend it highly enough!
I don't know if I can truly do justice in reviewing such a moving and real account of the journey that Sarah took me on as I read Well. Throughout the many short chapters, I grasped and held on to her words. Love looks around. I will never forget that. I am grateful to warriors such as Sarah who are willing to keep loving and pressing forward so that others like myself can find ways to walk in her footsteps. Thank you, Sarah. Your words blessed and touched me!
Sarah is a legitimate servant who practices the genuine art of love. She is real, authentic and genuinely cares for the poor, disadvantaged and marginalized. As a Nurse Practitioner, this book will give you deeper insights, not only into medicine and its unique role is healing, but in the power of touch.
Very well written memoir of the author’s time working in Togo as a PA in a hospital in a desperately needy area. Her reflections on many topics are deep, meaningful, and challenging. And engaging read that will move you to action.
I do not have words to express how amazing this book was. By far the best book I have read in a long time. Sarah's honesty and writing style are just beautiful. Absolutely 10/10 would recommend this book to anyone who is considering missions or wants to help the developing nations.
Wow, what a read!
This is a forthright account of a young woman's three month stint at a large (for the region) hospital in Togo, "the least happy of all the world's nations." Sarah Thebarge came as a physician's assistant and was intimately involved in the medical treatment of hundreds upon hundreds of often desperately ill patients in her short time in country. Her reactions to the constant death of patients because of so many factors--lack of equipment or medicines, delays in patients turning to the hospital after exhausting various kinds of "healing" in their own villages--are open and honest, and often heart-breaking.Well provides insight into a world that most of us in the western world never see, where even dedicated volunteer workers get malaria, have to deal with lack of water (especially serious in a hospital where sanitation is critical), and deal with a never seen in the west level of mortality among patients. Thebarge is not afraid to share her emotional ups and downs as she confronts these challenges, and this is a strong point for the book.What does remain uncovered and unchallenged are some of the things that trouble her most and that were most troubling for this reader. She seems to be coming into the work as a "loner," not part of any organization that would have provided both more preparation for the three months as well as supportive co-workers, mentors, etc. She notes being turned down by other agencies but doesn't provide insight into why others saw her cancer history as prohibitive (her vaguely stated reason) when this rotation ignored it. Was it their desperation for any trained staff? Whatever the reason, this was no favor done for Thebarge.While she is complimentary to most of those she worked with, the author really doesn't show us how she was ever able to really relate to co-workers or the people of Togo. Yes, she bought some soccer balls for some of the kids (and recounts being castigated for this violation of "regulations") but did she ever reach out to the families of those children, seek any further interaction? Did she ever try to get some of her co-workers to come with her in this kind of outreach? Was she ever able to help alleviate what she saw as gaps in the way that other non-Togo staff related to their Togo peers?Three months is a very short time to really get a feel for what long-term compassionate ministry to those in another culture is like. The book is well worth reading, but it serves as a cautionary tale on why poorly prepared, lone wolf actions like this may not be of long term benefit. It also left a cynical feeling that perhaps the real purpose of the trip was not so much to assist the people of Togo as to find a topic for a second book. It would be wonderful to see a follow-up, either in another book or at least a solid magazine article, on how since returning to the States she has been able to further the work at the Hospital of Hope.
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