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Title: The Blessing by Gary Smalley, John Trent ISBN: 0-671-73743-0 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (12 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: read with care
Comment: An okay book. Just pick out the good parts and overlook the preaching (there's lots of that).
Rating: 5
Summary: A childhood of chaos becomes poetry.
Comment: This memoir is heartbreaking. Out of a careless and addicted family that was plagued by accidental deaths and day to day chaos, Gregory Orr grew to be a poet. His guilt at killing his younger brother caused him to examine each day and each experience with a keen appreciative eye. His childhood, after the hunting accident that killed his brother, was a bleak landscape of depression and guilt. And yet, he appreciates life and it's beauty.
This is the story of how he overcame his desolate adolescence and threw himself into the Civil Rights movement as blood payment on his sense of guilt. He also analyses his parents' marriage and his father's addiction to speed that made his childhood so disorganized and unstable. His survival of both childhood and barely avoiding becoming a civil rights martyr marks the beginning of his healing. Living through the SNCC voting rights effort allows Orr to eventually make peace with himself and to record the beauty of what he sees around himself.
A good book of a spiritual journey. Well worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Treasured Gift
Comment: I first read this, borrowed from a friend, who selfishly wanted it back!;) Then I couldn't find it anywhere and I desperately wanted to own it. Finally, I located a copy, rained on, wrinkled, battered and sore, in a used book store and immediately bought it. I read and re-read its bruised but valuable pages. And more selfishly than my friend, I don't loan it out at all. Everyone needs this in their home library. Tell your kids not to read it to make sure they sneak into it and receive their own blessing. This is a wonderful gift to anyone who has grown up in "modern" America and needs to get past the sound bytes that define our lives. It will make you cry. It will make you grow. It will allow you to move on. Thank you, thank you, thank you for writing this book.
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Title: The Blessing: A Study Guide for Small Groups by Gary Smalley, John T. Trent ISBN: 0891092757 Publisher: Navpress Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: Gift Of The Blessing, The by Gary Smalley, John Trent ISBN: 0840748493 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 14 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Blessing Workbook: Your 5-Step, Interactive Plan for Finding and Sharing Genuine Acceptance by Gary Smalley, John T. Trent ISBN: 0840745559 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Love Is A Decision by Gary Smalley, John T. Trent ISBN: 0849942683 Publisher: Word Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.99 |
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Title: The Key To Your Child's Heart by Gary Smalley ISBN: 0849938864 Publisher: Word Publishing Pub. Date: 12 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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