Synopses & Reviews
One of the best-loved spiritual writers of our time—an author ranked with C.S. Lewis and Thomas Merton—Henry J.M. Nowuen, takes a moving, personal look at human mortality in Our Greatest Gift. A meditation on dying and caring, Our Greatest Gift gently and eloquently reveals the gifts that the living and dying can give to one another. The beloved bestselling author of With Open Hands, The Wounded Healer, and Making All Things New shares his own experiences with aging, loss, grief, and fear in this important and life-altering work.
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“One of my favorite ‘caregivers, Henri Nouwen challenges us to accept our death as part of our spiritual journey, not its end. …Nouwen continues to be a must read.” Capital Times
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“On the long road its good to have Nouwen and his diving rod. Deftly he bends toward the drop of spiritual wisdom caked in the most ordinary things.” Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., author of Dead Man Walking
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“…a very comforting book. …Nouwen offers us here a gentle, almost meditative book on coming to terms with death.” Publishers Weekly
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“Its a new way of looking at death, one with an upside.” Miami Herald
Synopsis
One of the best-loved spiritual writers of our time takes a moving, personal look at human mortality
Henri Nouwen shares his own experiences with aging, loss, grief, and fear, gently and eloquently revealing the gifts that the living and dying can give to one another.
Synopsis
One of the best-loved spiritual writers of our time--an author ranked with C.S. Lewis and Thomas Merton--Henry J.M. Nowuen, takes a moving, personal look at human mortality in
Our Greatest Gift. A meditation on dying and caring,
Our Greatest Gift gently and eloquently reveals the gifts that the living and dying can give to one another. The beloved bestselling author of
With Open Hands, The Wounded Healer, and
Making All Things New shares his own experiences with aging, loss, grief, and fear in this important and life-altering work.
About the Author
Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932-1996) is the author of Reaching Out, The Wounded Healer, Making All Things New, The Return of the Prodigal Son, and many other bestsellers. He taught at the universities of Harvard, Yale, and Notre Dame before becoming the senior pastor of L'Arche Daybreak in Toronto, Canada, a community where men and women with intellectual disabilities and their assistants create a home for one another.