Sharing the Darkness: The Spirituality of Caring

by Sheila Cassidy

Book Overview

This book is about the nature and cost of Christian discipleship in the front line of caring. It is warm-hearted, honest and a highly personal book, remarkable for its sense of hope and celebration. A... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0232517908
• ISBN13: 9780232517903
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Darton Longman and Todd
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

very encouraging and interesting spiritual account

Sheila Cassidy's intent in writing this book was to discuss what draws people to work with dying patients, which she does. However much of the book is self-revelation, as she explores her own messy, misdirected spiritual path, sincere and devout, but frequently meeting failure, as in her attempt to become a nun. She seems very well suited to hospice work, and seems pretty honest about her own character flaws. Amazingly, I found myself feeling quite cheerful while reading her book. How nice to read about the spiritual strugglings of another, and how encouraging to see that she has attained a depth of spirituality many people never reach, in spite of all her flaws. There's hope for the rest of us who sincerely want to live a spiritual life, but could never emulate the self-sacrifice of a Mother Teresa.