Description: A collection of stories about people, one for every day of the year. A historical account links the story to events from history. A thought for the day offers time for reflection, and a daily prayer sets it all in the presence of God. A valuable resource for principals, teachers, senior students and parents.
Brief description: Bill Firman has been a member of the De La Salle Brothers since 1962. During that time he has been Headmaster at a number of schools in Australia and New Zealand, Provincial of the order and Director of the well-known young people's charity, BoysTown. He prepared this book while Headmaster of De La Salle College, Malvern, the same school where he was College Captain more than fifty years ago. He presently works in South Sudan in teacher and nursing education.
Review Quotes:
Here is a series of stories about people. There is one for every day of the year. There is an historical account that links the day with real people in real time who have done what no one expected of them. There is a 'thought for each day' that challenges the status quo of our everyday ordinariness or sometimes lets us simply relax in the knowledge that the best effort is the essential one for our lives. There is what most of us like most - a story. Sometimes it is historical. More often it is allegorical, just like those favourite fables of tortoises and hares about which we now smile. And there is a daily prayer free of any coercion and geared to who and what we are.
Ambrose Payne fsc AM AO, from the Foreword
Whoever receives this book is invited to use it to reflect quietly each day on its content and to continue the journey of life with an increasing awareness of the presence of God. For some it may even help them discover that they are more 'religious' than they think, not in the sense of being pious but by being a good person trying to lead a decent life, ready to help one's neighbour when the need arises. Perhaps this book may also be a useful resource book for educators looking for ideas, quotations and reflections to be used as a starting point for a lesson or homily.
from the Introduction