Bearing Our Sorrows: Christian Reflections for Courage, Hope, and Healing

by Mary Ellen Ashcroft and Holly Bridges Elliott

These quotations offer a way to rise up from grief and ease the burden.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060603119
• ISBN13: 9780060603113
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A TIMELESS COLLECTION OF INSPIRATIONAL READINGS

"Christian Reflections for Courage, Hope and Healing" is the apt subtitle of this small volume of thoughts by historic and contemporary writers. Fourteen chapters, modern interpretations of the Station of the Cross, are devoted to the various crossroads in life's journey. Each group offers uplifting words of comfort and inspiration from some of the world's finest thinkers. We begin with "The Journey Beckons" and the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: "The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ..." "Seeing Christ in Others" offers some particularly meaningful words from Mother Teresa, while "Kept In Hope" is thoughtfully poignant, with selections from Haiti's Aristide and Henri Nouwen. C. S. Lewis, M. Scott Peck, T.S. Eliot, Annie Dillard, Alan Paton, and others contribute to this timeless collection of inspirational reading. - Gail Cooke