A chaplain and long-term survivor of AIDS demonstrates how acceptance of death through spiritual awareness can make life more fulfilling and provides poetry, prayer, and quotations for inspiration.
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When he wrote Living Our Dying, Joseph Sharp had been living with the HIV virus for over a decade, living each day with the knowledge that he will, eventually, die. For him, this has become the foundation of an intimate awareness of the beauty and majesty of life, in himself and in all those close to him, whether they've been diagnosed with a fatal illness or not. In this straightforward book, Sharp weaves his personal experiences, quotations from other spiritual and health authors, and suggested meditations into a moving proposal for the "rewriting" of our own lives as a conscious pilgrimage toward the inevitable outcome for ourselves and those we love.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An important, moving book that instructs and comforts.,
By susanjs@u.washington.edu (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Living Our Dying: A Way to the Sacred in Everyday Life (Hardcover)
An important, fearlessly honest, moving book. Each page instructs, comforts and, possibly, breaks your heart, as those for whom it was written too late come to mind. The message couldn't be simpler; yet the cultural refusal to hear it is both complex and insidious. Mr. Sharp has cut through it like a hot knife through butter, presenting us with an unexpected fork in the road and loving direction to the path of healing and calm. If you know someone who is dying, or plan on it yourself someday, read this book, own this book
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Incredible book!,
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This review is from: Living Our Dying: A Way to the Sacred in Everyday Life (Paperback)
This book is a meditation in living! There is much insight and wisdom in each page. I have read this book several times over and keep going back to it. Like the comfort of sharing time with a good-friend, this book deserves to be invited in. The author is a gift in his prose!
0 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Trite clichés,
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This review is from: Living Our Dying: A Way to the Sacred in Everyday Life (Paperback)
this book was a waste of time and the only thing that made it worth while was to give it to someone as a gift.
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