This author has ministered in seminars over a period of many years and she writes from the background of a long life of seeking to bring healing through the Lord Jesus Christ. The name of her ministry has been Pastoral Care Ministries, she has written a number of books also of which this one represents her ministry very clearly. It is subtitled ‘Curing the Soul through Union with Christ’ and in this is the safety and richness of her ministry. Her focus throughout is not on techniques but on His presence, and the fact that union with Him is essential to deliverance from sin, newness of life and service for Him is in fact His service continuing to be worked out in and through us. She writes with authority and seriousness, never moving away from her anchor that is Christ and His cross. She does not magnify any of her practices into necessary methodologies, encourages the habituating of Christ and His presence within and transcendently as being the path of abundant life. There are critiques of certain psychological schools such as that of Jung, she writes quite sensitively on the use of the imagination in the Christian life and ministry without turning it into the fanciful practice that some Christian counselors have made it. This is a book on spiritual life as well as spiritual health, drawing on other authors all the while, particularly C.S.Lewis who she holds in highest esteem. First and foremost it is healing of the mind and spirit about which she is writing, deliverance from the false gods that abound both within and without, consistently she asserts that wholeness comes from the indwelling Christ. God is Holy, He is light and therefore there can be no freedom for the soul and rising into newness of life without repentance and turning to the Holy One. Implicit in all is the place of the cross in the walk of believers and this is handled with freshness and her language commands attention. The book is wide ranging in the things it covers, Satan’s wiles and the dread power of introspection, the need for the masculine in order to be properly feminine and the place of the feminine in the making of the true masculine and Christ being the source of all, these are among the subjects tackled. There are some vital chapters too, on the place of symbol and the use of the imagination; these will be illuminating to some readers. Among those who have practiced a ministry specifically geared towards what some call ‘inner healing”(she does not call it that) this author is surely centered firmly in Christ from whom all saving ministry flows.
