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Item Details
| Title:
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FLY WHILE YOU STILL HAVE WINGS
AND OTHER LESSONS MY RESILIENT MOTHER TAUGHT ME |
| By: |
Joyce Rupp |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1933495847 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781933495842 |
| Publisher: |
AVE MARIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 March, 2015 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Synopsis: |
In this heartfelt memoir about her mother Hilda's final years, Joyce Rupp sharesthe lessons her mother taught her, especially to "fly while you still havewings." As a poor farmer's wife and the mother of eight living on rented land inMaryhill, Iowa, Hilda lived a life with hard labor and constant responsibility-frommilking cows and raising chickens to keeping the farm's financial ledger. Ruppshows how the difficulties of her mother's early years and family life, including theloss of a twenty-three-year-old son, forged a resilience that guided her through theillnesses and losses she faced later on. This affectionate profile of their relationshipis, at the same time, an honest self-examination as Rupp shares the ways she failedto listen to, accept, and understand her mother in her final years.Rupp begins each chapter with a meditative poem that captures the essence ofeach stage in the journey. Her unfailing candor and profound faith illumine thisstory of a mother and daughter with a universal spirit of hope, reconciliation, andpeace.Readers who care for the elderly will identify with the joys and sorrows that Ruppexperienced. Likewise, those who are grieving for a parent will find an open andsensitive portrayal of the conflicting emotions that arise in the process of lettinggo. Anyone approaching their elder years will discover a model of how to enter theaging process with dignity and honesty that accepts the |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Ave Maria Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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