And A Time To Heal

by Ron Tottingham

Overview

Trauma tries the soul, and when it comes we are wounded; our inner person is permanently changed into a whole new being. To remove the scars is to go back to being who you were before the trauma. Then what would have been the point of the trauma? Where would be the building of our inner person if the trauma did not test our soul? You can have scars and have healing. The question then becomes, will we choose to have a life after trauma?  Will our trauma make us bitter or will we see through the calamity for the opportunities and blessings our new life now holds?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781630731786
Publisher:	Faithful Life Publishers
Publication date:	12/29/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	156
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ronald L. Tottingham, PhD is a pastoral clinical counsellor and professor of trauma and abuse counseling at Great Plains Baptist University. As a former Marine combat veteran, military and corrections chaplain and counsellor he has worked with combat veterans and their families for over 40 years. He holds PhDs in counseling and traumatology. He has done out-patient counselling for Offutt AFB mental health services, held many training seminars and workshops on post-traumatic stress management world-wide and done vocational work with the Rehabilitation Services for the Handicapped. Dr T, as he is called, served in the US Marines with one tour in Vietnam as a infantry machine gunner. He served with the 3rd Recon Btn and C Co/1st Btn/4th Marine Reg and after Vietnam as a Military Policeman. He continues his connection with the Corps by holding offices in the Marine Corps League. Since 2007 he has served as a federal chaplain endorser. In 1974 Dr T founded Empire Baptist Temple in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he led the church to establish an educational academy, a university and divinity school, state legislative lobby, corrections ministry, self-defense academy, singing group, printing ministry, and other ministries. 1983 he became a 2Lt with the Air Force Auxiliary and soon was promoted to Major as a chaplain. In 2007 he received a Colonel's commission as a Chaplain with the U.S. Service Command. In 2009 he was promoted to Brigadier General and 2012 to Major General. He was service connected medically retired as at the grade of Colonel (06) in 2007. Dr T is listed in six Who's Who, was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel, honored by New Mexico as an Estimado Amigo, honored by Arkansas as an Arkansas Traveler, honored twice with The Rev. Dr. Ron Tottingham Day by the Governor of South Dakota and honored with The Rev. Dr. Ron Tottingham Day by the Mayor of Sioux Falls and presented with the key to the city. He has written many books, pamphlets and flyers, several translated into foreign languages. His highest Marine Corps decorations include the Combat Action Ribbon, Navy Presidential Unit citation, and Vietnam Gallantry Cross (bronze star), and others. He is currently awaiting a senatorial petition for the Purple Heart Medal for his unrecorded wounds. He has been married to the former Linda Morris since May 1967. The Tottinghams have three children and eleven grandchildren as of 2016.

Table of Contents

Forewords by Colonel John Eidsmoe and Dr. Robert Hicks Preface Acknowledgments Editor's Acknowledgments A Charge to Pastors Part One To Change Internally Chapter 1: I Remember Chapter 2: A Severe Blow Chapter 3: So Is Life Unfair? Part Two To Change Eternally Chapter 4: I Had Changed Chapter 5: I Had Changed Permanently Chapter 6: The Ultimate Calamity Chapter 7: What Will You Do? Part Three To Overcome the Traumatized Conscience Chapter 8: The Children, the Children Chapter 9: A Just Cause for Killing Chapter 10: The Right and Wrong of Moral Injury Chapter 11: The Just Cause Doctrine Part Four To Overcome the Traumatized Soul Chapter 12: The Napalmed Marine Chapter 13: Flashbacks Chapter 14: Soul Lepers Chapter 15: Real Men Do Weep Part Five To Overcome with the Traumatized Family Chapter 16: My Wife Chapter 17: The Family Suffers Chapter 18: What to Say? Chapter 19: Resilience Picture Album Part Six To Wholly Heal Chapter 20: My Dad Chapter 21: Forgiving God Chapter 22: The Freedom in Forgiveness Chapter 23: Coping with Grief Part Seven To Wholly Live Chapter 24: Acceptance