Our Greatest Gift

A Meditation On Dying And Caring

"Is death something so terrible and absurd that we are better off not thinking or talking about it? Is death such an undesirable part of our existence that we are better off acting as if it were not real? Is death such an absolute end of all our thoughts and actions that we simply cannot face it?" Nouwen addresses these questions each of us must come to terms with from the unique vantage point of one who only a few years previously found himself very close to death after an accident. Drawing on his own experience, he shows how we can come to befriend our death and find in it the mentor who not only teaches us the sublimity of our human existence, but also leaves us with many clues to probing our ultimate destiny.

"A very comforting book. . . . Nouwen offers here a gentle, almost meditative book on coming to terms with death." - Publishers Weekly

(Harper Collins, 1994, Pp. 118/ 2009, Pp. 109)

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