Book description
A positive, affirming collection of essays that teaches how to
understand and accept life's darkest hours -- The Voice That
Calls You Home will improve the way readers live each and
every day.
As a hospice chaplain, cancer survivor, and a chaplain at Ground
Zero following September 11, Andrea Raynor has gained a keen
perspective on the meaning of life and death, comfort and grief.
Through her own experiences, Raynor reminds readers that even in the
most dire of circumstances, we still have the opportunity to recognize
beauty, to be inspired by the tenacity of the human spirit, and to
feel connected to something greater.
Raynor acknowledges that we may not be able to prevent the
difficulties that come in life, but we can always choose the way in
which we face them. She urges us not to "live with our heads
down, our eyes closed, and our hands in our pockets." Instead,
she prompts us to remain open to the blessings that are all around us
and to face life's challenges head-on -- "to increase our
courage, re-new our hope, and unite us in the knowledge that we are
not alone."
In the tradition of Anne Lamott and Kate Braestrup, The Voice
That Calls You Home is a warm, personal, and practical guide to
appreciating the wondrous world we live in, offering perspective on
how we can bear the sorrows that are sure to come with a steady eye
and a sense of hope, and find the connection between the spiritual and
the everyday.
"A book for anyone who has ever hit a bump in
the road of life, or needs the words and the wisdom to care for those
who have. Andrea Raynor writes in a soothing and beautiful way about
the collective experience of loss and grief and the ability to touch
the common threads of hope through incredibly difficult times."
-- Lee Woodruff, New York Times bestselling coauthor of In
an Instant
Andrea Raynor received her Master of Divinity
from Harvard Divinity School and served as a chaplain at Ground Zero
after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. A cancer survivor
herself, she now continues helping others through her hospice
work. She lives in Rye, New York.
