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A hospice chaplain passes on knowledge on giving interpretation to life, from those taking leave of computer. As the hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan didn't offer sermons or prayers unless they were requested; in simple fact, she found, the dying seldom want to speak about God, at least not overtly. Instead she discovered she'd been awarded a great chance to see firsthand what she calling the "spiritual work of dying" - the work of finding or making interpretation of one's life, the encounters it's contained, and the people who have touched it, the betrayals, wounds, unfinished business, and unrealized dreams. Rather than talking she mainly listened: to testimonies of wish and regret, pity and pride, puzzle and revelation and secrets placed too long. Most of all, though, she listened as her patients discussed love - love because of their children and lovers and friends; love they didn't learn how to offer; love they offered unconditionally; love they learned, sometimes belatedly, to give themselves. This is not a publication about dying - it's a publication about living. And Egan isn't only passively bearing see to these testimonies. An emergency technique during the delivery of her first child still left her physically complete but emotionally and spiritually adrift. Her are a hospice chaplain healed her from a brokenness she came to see most of us show. Each of her patients educated her something - how to find courage when confronted with dread or the power to make amends; how to be profoundly compassionate and fiercely empathetic; how to see the world in grays instead of dark and white. In this particular poignant, moving, and beautiful publication, she passes along all their valuable and necessary gift ideas.
