Finding Heaven : Stories of Going Home

by de Vinck, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780829416466
• ISBN10: 0829416463
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

In this personal autobiography, author Christopher de Vinck shares his belief that there is indeed a heaven and that we can find evidence of it in the ordinary experiences of our lives. Prompted by his son's desire for proof of heaven, de Vinck collected thirty lighthearted stories that reveal the presence of heaven in the everyday.

Table of Contents

A Message from Australia	ix
Childhood
Heaven Is Up	3	(4)
Christmas Gift from Belgium	7	(4)
Einstein, Queen Elizabeth, and Sister Lillian	11	(4)
Pumpkin Boy	15	(4)
Treasures in Tight Places	19	(8)
Faith
I Love You, and So Does God	27	(3)
A Match Made in Heaven	30	(3)
Loretta McSorley and the Stations of the Cross	33	(4)
The Virgin in the Window	37	(3)
Faith of a Poet	40	(5)
Family
The Swoon of Faith	45	(4)
My Father's Rosary	49	(3)
The Miracle of the Prayer Cards	52	(7)
Old Man Christmas	59	(6)
Imagination
Creating and Loving	65	(4)
Halloween Light	69	(2)
I Am the Music	71	(3)
Plaster-of-Paris Sacrament	74	(3)
The Fog Comes on Little Cat Feet	77	(6)
Suffering
California Girl	83	(6)
Hugs and Curses	89	(3)
The Power of the Powerless	92	(5)
How to Increse the Total Amount of Happiness	97	(5)
Fix My Mother	102	(7)
Home
My Earthly Mansion	109	(3)
Bees in the Attic	112	(4)
My Friend Fred	116	(5)
A Prediction to Believe In	121	(3)
American Laughter	124	(4)
Wild Man	128	(5)
Tap Me on the Shoulder	133