Finding Our Way Home: Addictions and Divine Love

by K. Killian Noe

Overview

These stories describe the radical journey of creating a life with purpose, hope, and belonging. In Finding Our Way Home Killian Noe draws from her experience as co-founder and program director at Samaritan Inns, an organization serving addicted and homeless men and women. Reading these stories can lead you to awareness of your own addictions and divine love, a journey that can lead you home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780836192629
Publisher:	MennoMedia
Publication date:	10/30/2003
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

K. Killian Noe, along with David Erickson, founded Samaritan Inns in 1985. A comprehensive response to homelessness and addictions, Samaritan Inns is located in Washington, D.C. In 1998, Yale Divinity School named Killian Noe one of its Distinguished Alumni. Killian currently lives in Seattle, Washington, where she started New Creation Community, an ecumenical faith community committed to contemplation and action and "Recovery Café," a recovery refuge for formerly homeless addicted men and women.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	1
	Introduction: Looking for love	5
1	The gift of surrender, of being ready to choose	9
2	Reclaiming our true identity	13
3	Moving from the general to the specific	19
4	Prayer	24
5	Created for community	30
6	Being with and for the suffering and the excluded	36
7	Discerning our call, our piece of God's dream	47
8	Managing our ambivalence	63
9	The phoenix factor	70
10	Real power in weakness	76
	Afterword	85
	About the Author	88