Pastoral counselor J. Bill Ratliff shows that facing change in our lives doesn’t have to be a traumatic experience–it can be a time of enlightenment. Ratliff describes the types of chosen and unchosen changes one is likely to encounter in life and then tells how to deal with endings, uncertainties, and new beginnings. If we listen for the voice of God, Ratliff says, we can emerge from a time of major change more whole than we were before we entered.
J. Bill Ratliff has been actively involved in pastoral counseling since 1970 and has written several books on the subject, including Out of the Silence: Quaker Perspectives on Pastoral Care and Counseling. Ratliff has also taught courses in Applied Theology at Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana.