Ethics, Religious, Spirituality, General & Miscellaneous Christian Life, Self-Improvement
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Overview
During his father's illness and death, J. Daniel Hess paused to remember. He took a journey into his heritage--not a sentimental journey so much as a thoughtful walk among old things he received from his father and mother, who received from families, who also inherited them. These old things turned out to be of unimaginable value.Editorials
Library Journal
As his father was dying from a long illness, Hess (communications, Goshen Coll.) took time to reflect upon all the gifts that his father had handed down to him. Hess's reflections reveal to him the intimate bond that the act of giving creates between generations of family and friends. Acts of gaiety, purity, civility, dignity, simplicity, generosity, perceptivity, responsibility, serenity, and integrity comprise the greatest gifts one person can hand on to another. Given Hess's anecdotal style of recounting the ways these gifts might make us more human, this book far surpasses the more doctrinaire tone of several recent books of virtues. Recommended for most libraries.Book Details
Published
July 1, 1996
Publisher
Herald Press
Pages
112
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780836190472