Home Is Where I Live [Paperback]

Camilla Warrick (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2000 | ISBN-10: 1578950406 | ISBN-13: 978-1578950409

In 1996 Camilla Warrick was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. A staff reporter for the Cincinnati Post, Warrick turned to her love of writing to discover the most authentic part of herself -- the place where she lived with God. This is not a book about the drama of disease or death. This is a book about the healing discovery of one's special relationship to God and the universe.

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This is more than a story about surviving breast cancer. It's an invitation to live an authentic life. -- The Reverend Sharon K. Youngs, M.S.S.W., C.S.W.

Product Details

• Paperback: 109 pages
• Publisher: Bridge Resources (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578950406
• ISBN-13: 978-1578950409
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,110,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Finding Peace, April 25, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Home Is Where I Live (Paperback)

A moving chronicle of one woman's battle not only with breast cancer, but with the myriad spirtual issues that necessarily accompany confronting one's own mortality. Written as reflections upon diary entries that were made throughout the course of treatment, the book conveys an optimistic, hopeful message about transcending difficult circumstances. Whether or not you personally have encountered the disease, you will be able to relate to the author's search for deeper meaning in the midst of daily existence.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for breast cancer survivors, July 24, 2000

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Carole Parrish (Terrace Park, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Is Where I Live (Paperback)

This is an important book for woman with breast cancer who are trying to make sense of their lives. Camilla Warwick's warmth and honesty speak to the deeper places within us. She shows, through sharing her own journey, how to not let illness define us, but how to let it guide and lead us to a new and authentic self. Using exerpts from her journals, Ms. Warwick courageously shares what gave her light and hope and joy in the midst of darkness, despair and fear. Ms. Warwick's writing is thoughtful and daring. Her words are richly woven together to create something surprisingly beautiful filled with love and wonderment, pain and hope.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Home Is The Place, September 22, 2000

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Harold G. Porter (Cincinnati, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Home Is Where I Live (Paperback)

Ms. Warrick's book, written in her usually gifted prose, has cancer as the stimulus for this Jobian journey but it is much more than that. It's about honesty and faith's struggle for Ultimate Concern. And not just about others, or God, but about the priority of the Self. "Anything short of self-love involves addiction," she writes. How true, but not because the self is to be honored above all others, or the Divine, but because all we finally have to work with, as to life's meaning, is our own soul and it must have our own signature.

As a pastor, I have met many who have experienced cancer and with great courage. But she is able to put her own battle into the whole context of life's many splendor, difficult and mundane realities. She doesn't know the outcome but she will not get off the open road and bear witness to the truth, as she so well perceives it. And that is enough.

Read it and weep, laugh and look for your own revelations as to how we each may discover a way not only to cope but to dance.