A WHOLE WORLD of HOPE
Finding Hope Again
By Peter Millar.
Pub Canterbury Press, 194 pp ISBN 1-85311-438-3, £8.99
Reviewed by Murdoch MacKenzie
What does one do in the face of sudden death ? When on a clear and frosty morning, with no warning whatsoever, your marriage partner of twenty seven years collapses on the bathroom
floor ? Peter Millar, former Warden of Iona Abbey, had just that experience when his wife, Dorothy, died peacefully in their home in Laggan on 9th March 2001.
Dorothy was a global citizen and in June 2001 Peter published Seeds for Tomorrow an anthology from many sources collected by Dorothy. Now in Finding Hope Again he has given us a very personal journey through sorrow and beyond. With great sensitivity but with no avoidance of the rawness of pain and grief we are led from despair to hope. On the way we are given vivid glimpses of hope from many lives in many continents including Teresa of Avila's 'Nada te turbe', Church of Scotland Moderator John Miller's response to the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, and Jurgen Moltmann's 'Life - a fragment of death'. From India, Chile, Tibet, Zambia, Australia, North America and elsewhere the testimonies flow in witnessing to the fact that there is indeed hope in the world, that dry bones are dancing again and that Christ's hope leads us to a joy which passes our understanding.
Here, without sentimentality, but with deep sensitivity, is a book for all seasons of grief.
Murdoch MacKenzie
Finding Hope Again
By Peter Millar.
Pub Canterbury Press, 194 pp ISBN 1-85311-438-3, £8.99
Reviewed by Murdoch MacKenzie
What does one do in the face of sudden death ? When on a clear and frosty morning, with no warning whatsoever, your marriage partner of twenty seven years collapses on the bathroom
floor ? Peter Millar, former Warden of Iona Abbey, had just that experience when his wife, Dorothy, died peacefully in their home in Laggan on 9th March 2001.
Dorothy was a global citizen and in June 2001 Peter published Seeds for Tomorrow an anthology from many sources collected by Dorothy. Now in Finding Hope Again he has given us a very personal journey through sorrow and beyond. With great sensitivity but with no avoidance of the rawness of pain and grief we are led from despair to hope. On the way we are given vivid glimpses of hope from many lives in many continents including Teresa of Avila's 'Nada te turbe', Church of Scotland Moderator John Miller's response to the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, and Jurgen Moltmann's 'Life - a fragment of death'. From India, Chile, Tibet, Zambia, Australia, North America and elsewhere the testimonies flow in witnessing to the fact that there is indeed hope in the world, that dry bones are dancing again and that Christ's hope leads us to a joy which passes our understanding.
Here, without sentimentality, but with deep sensitivity, is a book for all seasons of grief.
Murdoch MacKenzie
