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Bill Cain reminds you to remember that no part of your story is untouched by Gods yearning to be intimate. . . . The essence of revelation is to find the revealing as it still happens. It didnt stop 2000 years ago, as Bill Cain insists. What is revealed in the present moment is eternally replenishing and inviting us to cherish. Choosing to cherish with every breath is not hard. Remembering to cherish . . . now thats difficult. This book reminds us to the Foreword by Gregory Boyle, SJ, author, Tattoos from the Heart
The Bible, as Bill Cain reminds us, is largely made up of family storiesstories of birth and death, of generations and legacies, joys and losseswith the astonishing claim that in these stories God is telling us a sacred story. What makes us think that story ended 2,000 years ago? He writes: Perhapsevery hundred years or soevery family can be invited to submit a book of their stories, the stories of their journey with God through the events, large and small, of their time. And, if every familys entry cannot be added to everyones Bible, perhapsevery hundred yearseach family can add a new book to the family Bible.
In this moving account of the months he spent caring for his mother through the ordeal following a diagnosis of terminal cancer, he shows us all how to add a new book to the family Bible. With humor, affection, self-awareness, and his skills as a prize-winning playwright, Fr. Cain invites us to consider the ways that Gods story is written in all the everyday dramas of family lifeespecially those that open our hearts, teach us to give and let go, and remind us what it means to be human. He writes:
I make a quiet vow here alone at the kitchen table, where I sat with my mother just a few days ago. . . . I will honor my parents stories as Abraham and Sarahs children did theirs. As Jesuss friends did his. . . . As best I can, I will sift through a hundred years of stories, always looking for what God chose to reveal in the lives of two perfectly ordinary, absolutely extraordinary people. A new book. Non-canonical perhaps, but nonetheless revelatory. And perhaps, in doing so, I might be able to find a way to keep the story that began with Abraham and Sarah going forward.
Author: Bill Cain S. J.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 03/02/2023
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781626985032
Language: English
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