Description: In times of suffering, simplistic answers ring empty and hollow. But the beloved spiritual thinker offers real comfort in the concrete truth of God's constancy. Nouwen suggests that by greeting life's pains with something other than despair, surprising joy can be found in suffering.
Brief description:
Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932-1996) was the author of With Open Hands, Reaching Out, The Wounded Healer, Making All Things New, and many other bestsellers. He was the senior pastor of L'Arche Daybreak in Toronto, Canada, a community where men and women with mental disabilities and their assistants create a home for one another.