A story of family and a journey through Faith, though not in a traditional sense. The author explores the "coming together" of a family around the deathbed of the patriarch. With a style that is highly personal, the narrator describes the revelations, discoveries, and growth that occurs within these relationships during the several days of "coming together".
Like so many families today in our world of highly effective medicine and life-support, the family in this story faces the difficult and wrenching questions our culture must face: When does life begin and end? What are the complexions of distinction between bare and primitive "life" on the one hand, and "human-ness" on the other hand? Where and when and how do we "play G-d" with our decisions to withhold feeding tubes and respirators? How do we face these questions, and work our way to effective answers?
Woven through the story are descriptions of magical and mystical encounters that inform and guide the life of the narrator, helping to open honest questions about how "religion" aids or obstructs the journey through Faith that most people are called to explore.
Review:
I at first had a hard time getting into this one but as the pages starting turning I found myself being swept away by the story. The journey taken pulls at me on a very personal level, as my son had three heart surgeries by time he was 3 years old, as it will for anybody with this sort of story. If you want to hear an inspirational tale you must pick this one up.
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