Life of the Beloved and Our Greatest Gift

Two of Nouwen's most inspirational works. LIFE OF THE BELOVED asks how one can live a spiritual life in a completely secular culture. OUR GREATEST GIFT is a precious meditation, born out of his personal experience of being with the dying.

The late Henri Nouwen was one of the 20th century's great spiritual writers and this volume contains two of his most inspirational pastoral works. The Life of the Beloved asks how one can live a spiritual life in a completely secular culture. Our Greatest Gift is a meditation on dying and caring for the dying and discusses death and how to die well. This comes directly out of Nouwen's personal experience of being with the dying and asks\* how can my death become fruitful in the lives of others?Read less