Description
Discover the
Antidote for Loneliness In God’s Gift of Other People
The true stories that make up this book were milestones in
the author’s journey from isolation to community—from haunting estrangement to
a deeper, more vital connection with others.
In a
sense,
Friends and Strangers is about
loneliness—how we become cut off from other people and estranged from
ourselves.
More
important, it is about the precious gift of other people, friends and strangers
alike, and the contributions they make in our lives.
For it
is through our chance encounters and our everyday relationships, Karen Mains
has discovered, that we grow into our real selves. And it is often those we
meet in life’s lonely places that show us the face of Christ.
“I have
finally realized the stranger I am to myself can only find its real place in
the arms of another Stranger, Jesus Christ. He is the one who outwits my
self-deception by coming to me in the guise of many strangers—strangers who,
once I recognize the presence of Christ within them, become my friends.â€
