Finding the elusive God /

Through moving stories of his service to the poor, Father Paul Scanlon shares his struggles to change his own vision to see Christ in the ordinary people and extraordinary misery around him. Father Scanlon's moving accounts reveal the challenge he faced in finding God's hand amid ruin while capturin...

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Main Author: Scanlon, Paul, O.P
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Huntington, Ind. : Our Sunday Visitor, [2006], ©2006.
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Summary:Through moving stories of his service to the poor, Father Paul Scanlon shares his struggles to change his own vision to see Christ in the ordinary people and extraordinary misery around him. Father Scanlon's moving accounts reveal the challenge he faced in finding God's hand amid ruin while capturing the deep faith that brings peace to those otherwise wilthout hope.
Table of Contents:
  • Hide and seek
  • Not a sparrow falls
  • God's work of art
  • Blessed are the poor in spirit
  • The power of the spirit
  • Horse manure
  • Forgiveness
  • Awareness
  • Thirsting for God
  • Gratefulness
  • Don't judge by appearances
  • The church as community
  • Rooted in Christ
  • Wonder and worship
  • The humility of God
  • Through the eyes of compassion
  • The good fisherman.