Thin Places

by O'Keefe, Mary Treacy

• ISBN13: 9781592981120
• ISBN10: 1592981127
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Beavers Pond Pr

Summary

Bill and Terry Treacy died three months apart, after fifty years of marriage and a lifetime of faith. Devastated by this loss, their ten children found comfort in inexplicable signs assuring them that their parents were at peace, reunited in heaven, and yet still present in the lives of those who grieved for them. In "Thin Places: Where Faith Is Affirmed and Hope Dwells," Mary Treacy O?Keefe describes such signs as thin places?sudden realizations of that ethereal veil between what we know of earth and what we believe of heaven. In sharing her family's story (and those of many others), she shows how thin places are present in ordinary places at ordinary times?and how such moments of grace reveal Divine loving messages of faith and hope in our daily lives.

Author Biography

Mary Treacy O'Keefe is co-founder and executive director of Well Within, a nonprofit wellness resource center in West St. Paul, Minnesota, that provides integrative healing services to people living with chronic and/or live-threatening illnesses. Her writings have appeared in magazines and books, including "Chicken Soup for the Christian Family Soul."

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Prologue: The Grace of a Happy Death	xv
The Celtic Rainbow	1	(8)
Family as a Thin Place	9	(6)
Living Fully as a Thin Place	15	(8)
Sharing Faith as a Thin Place	23	(12)
Letting Go as a Thin Place	35	(4)
Healing Touch as a Thin Place	39	(8)
Difficult Times as Thin Places	47	(6)
The Hospital as a Thin Place	53	(4)
Dying as a Thin Place	57	(10)
Ritual as a Thin Place	67	(6)
Coincidences as Thin Places	73	(12)
Love as a Thin Place	85	(8)
The Absence of Thin Places	93	(6)
Angelic Thin Places	99	(8)
Prayer as a Thin Place	107	(6)
Signs as Thin Places	113	(14)
After-Death Thin Places	127	(6)
Sharing Thin-Place Stories	133	(16)
Epilogue: Where Hope Dwells	149	(8)
Bibliography and Resources	157