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Our Life Together

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To start off, what a shame that this book is not also available at amazon.com for US customers.
This is an amazing book. I'm not really one for biographies but this compilation of extremely well written letters full of compassion, truth, advice, history, and stories are captivating. I've been slowly reading/savoring this book over the last few months. What an incredible model of how human's can live together in a very normal way, the way God intends us to live.
As a non Catholic Christian I encourage all Christians to read this. In fact I encourage all people of all faiths to read it.

There is something about these letters and reminisces by Jean Vanier that has a calming and uplifting effect on the reader. The letters date back to the sixties, ending in 2007, but each letter pulsates with compassion, vigor, wisdom and unshakeable faith. Vanier's life is truly one lived according to Christian principles. This is an inspiring, one-of-a-kind book. Pick it up and open it at any page and you will find something that will take you away from - and at the same help you see more clearly - the world we live in and must try somehow to save. Vanier writes simply, cheerfully, and you almost feel as if he were addressing you personally. Essentially the letters record his travels throughout the world, first and third, the people he meets, the things he sees, and his efforts to help mentally disabled people. The letters are a beautiful testament to a life devoted to helping people.

Searching for God's will in one's life can lead on a journey unimagined.
Jean Vanier, son of our Governor General, a privileged young man seeks God's will for his life...and ends up devoting it to the mentally challenged ...living in community with them...founding L'Arche Homes all over the world, India, Africa, Honduras, Canada.

Reading his letters "home" to his community as he travels establishing new homes...one feels a part of their loving communal life.

A book to savour, great summertime reading.