Liturgical Press, 2008

 

In 1999 Kathy Berken left Green Bay, Wisconsin, for her new home as a live-in assistant in a L’Arche community in Clinton, Iowa. Although the life she left was not necessarily one of balmy beaches, she could never have predicted the storms that lay ahead. A former high school and college math teacher and staff member of The Compass, the newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Ms Berken found that her new home was not an ark of refuge. What she discovered was that God was with her and the members of her house, shaping and guiding them. The story of her journey is told here with verve and honesty. It is a story of breast cancer, of forging relationships, of violence and the struggle to forgive. It is the story of a heart turned to God and changed by love of others. It is ultimately the story of all of our Christian lives, no matter where or with whom we live.
“Some people read books about L’Arche and pick up only those parts that seem beautiful, healing, and prayerful. You [Kathy] have lived and revealed in this book both sides.” — Jean Vanier

 

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