The House Where the Hardest Things Happened: A Memoir about Belonging

by Kate Young Caley

Book Overview

oThen one morning my (Sunday school teacher used my mother) as an example of sin for our lesson.a I remember asking my mother, 'What does hypocrite mean?' She couldn't find a way to answer. I started... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877880735
• ISBN13: 9780877880738
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Shaw Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A Healthy Engagement with Pain

Most of us live out our childhood losses and hurts well into adulthood--some of us until we die. So it's encouraging to see such a healthy engagement with pain as Kate presents in this book. She allows the anger but rejects bitterness; she asks questions but with hope, not cynicism. Anyone who has been wounded by a faith community will find value in this moving story. But Caley's story will offer wisdom and companionship to anyone who simply wants to wrestle with the "ordinary" wounds of life--the grief that visits all of us, the losses we can't avoid or ignore. This is definitely adult reading in the sense that it requires a person to grow up even while in the process of healing.

Refreshing Story of Hope

Anyone who has been around the church (regardless of denomination) for most of their lives will appreciate Kate Young Caley's experiences and journey through the pitfalls of man trying to do God's work man's way. Young-Caley presents her own story of a young girl in a very harsh world, who tries to make sense of wrongs and hurts from those whom she trusts and admires. Male or female, this is a book that you must read and take to heart. Young-Caley's story is easy to read and easy to internalize. You will laugh and cry at the gripping presentation of how to see life, and God's place in it. I could not put this book down. What a refreshing story of hope and how Jesus can once again help us claim victory.Please do not miss out on this most excellent work! Thanks Kate for helping me.

Read This Book !!

The House Where the Hardest Things Happened is a book which was written from the heart. The author has taken her view of spirituality and intertwined it with her often humorous upbringing from a young child to her adult years. Unlike most books dealing with our religious and spiritual experiences, Kate Caley has shared her everyday experiences, funny, sad, mundane and extraordinary as they are, and shaped them into a story which propels you along from one chapter to the next. The book in no way tells us how to act or live our lives, but rather explains what worked and what continues to work for the author. She expresses that the destination of her journey, is certainly far less important than the journey itself.The book is fun !! Not something usually associated with books of this theme, but fun comes through the pages as we are invited into her world of childhood awe, motherhood, raising a family and even tragedy. All these events are written about in a manner which flows off the page as if we were having a conversation with Kate Caley.When I finished the book, I wanted more.Go buy this book !!

Great book

Interesting read. I enjoyed the flashbacks through out the book. Having short chapters gave you some time to think about what you just read. I look forward to reading her next book.

Only in God's forgivness can we forgive.

Kate's story was so touching and real, as she described her life I could see and feel her situations. Her writing is exquisite.It brought back memories of childhood experiences that only with God's loving hand can guide us to a healing that only He can do.Thank you Kate Young-Caley for helping me to forgive,as our Heavenly Father forgives.