Lament for Spilt Porter - McCloskey, Larry
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During the past thirty years, Larry McCloskey has become an accomplished writer, while his day job/vocation has been working with students with disabilities. He wrote Lament for Spilt Porter with a sense of urgency born of the need to reconcile a haunting sense of loss with our muted desire to find our way home. The desire for home-how we fit into this life and anticipate the next-is our most basic spiritual impulse, fueling our hopes and fears, passions and pathologies. But sadly, for many of us, the hunger for home has been supplanted by the primacy of self, with predictable results. At a…mehr

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During the past thirty years, Larry McCloskey has become an accomplished writer, while his day job/vocation has been working with students with disabilities. He wrote Lament for Spilt Porter with a sense of urgency born of the need to reconcile a haunting sense of loss with our muted desire to find our way home. The desire for home-how we fit into this life and anticipate the next-is our most basic spiritual impulse, fueling our hopes and fears, passions and pathologies. But sadly, for many of us, the hunger for home has been supplanted by the primacy of self, with predictable results. At a time and in a place of greatest affluence and freedom, with technological means to connect all of us at all times, many of us are unhappy, isolated and on the question of meaning, lost. So maybe the only way forward is to look back, rediscover the wisdom from the cast of characters that populate our past and informs our present, to find the miracle in the minutia, to go home.
Autorenporträt
The Mully Children's Family ministry was founded in Kenya in 1989 by Dr Ev Charles and Esther Mulli as a response to the desperate needs of street-children, abandoned children and HIV/AIDS orphans. Through their work, more than 10,000 children have been successfully rehabilitated and reintegrated into society. At the moment there are more than 2,450 children between the ages of 1 week to 24 years old being supported in a number of residential and community-based care projects. Both Charles and Esther have been the recipients of numerous international awards for their work including the Robert W. Pierce award from World Vision in 1999, the Angel of Hope award in 2002 from World Vision International in Canada, the Head of State Commendation from His excellency the Honourable Mwai Kibaki, president and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Kenya in 2009, plus many other notable awards.