...it does violence to the human heart to live in poverty amid plenty. Photo: Photo: Helgi Halldórsson / flickr CC.
...it does violence to the human heart to live in poverty amid plenty. Photo: Photo: Helgi Halldórsson / flickr CC.
In Tunbridge Wells it’s not just dogs that get turfed onto the streets after Christmas, it’s children. Workers in the local housing department call it ‘the season of parental chuck-outs’. It was a bitterly cold February when Roisin, just fifteen, found herself homeless. Locked into an abusive relationship, and drinking heavily, her behaviour had changed so radically that her family was no longer able to tolerate her. For four months she lived rough, sleeping wherever she could – in car parks and children’s playgrounds – trying to keep decent by washing her clothes in public toilets, smoking weed at night to help her sleep. She was cold, scared and exhausted, and all the while tied to a man whose destructive emotional hold she felt herself unable to break.
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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