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For everything a season / Joan Chittister
Chittister, Joan

For everything a season / Joan Chittister

orbis books (2013)
9781626980198
| Paperback
159 pages | USA | English
Dewey 242.5 CHI
LC Classification BS1475.54 .C48 2013
LC Control No. 2012036656

Subject

  • Bible. Ecclesiastes, III, 1-8 - Meditations
  • Meditations

Plot

Through the famous verses of Ecclesiastes, Joan Chittister reflects on timeless themes: the purpose and value of human life, the balance of joy and sorrow, work and rest, love and loss. In meditating on the contrasting seasons of our lives, she shows how human fulfillment and true happiness come, not from getting and having more and more, but from knowing and valuing what we have. Friendship and laughter, patience and sorrow, humility and compassion, from birth through death all these are God's gifts to us, the precious moments of life itself.