Wounds Are Where Light Enters: Stories of God's Intrusive Grace

Wounds Are Where Light Enters: Stories of God's Intrusive Grace

by Walter Wangerin Jr.
Wounds Are Where Light Enters: Stories of God's Intrusive Grace

Wounds Are Where Light Enters: Stories of God's Intrusive Grace

by Walter Wangerin Jr.

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Overview

Many know the acclaimed author Walter Wangerin Jr., the storyteller who gave us the national bestseller The Book of the Duncow.

In Wounds Are Where Light Enters, you’ll see how God’s love breaks into our lonely moments in unexplainable ways. Wangerin tells the stories of memorable characters facing the same struggles we all face as we try to trust in God’s faithfulness.

Wounds Are Where Light Enters is a collection of stories that are warm, sometimes funny, sometimes not, but always taking unexpected turns to find the care of God in all the pathways of life.  In them we find the grace that enables us to live with the answers we see and the answers we don’t see.  In this collection we meet Arthur Bias, the retired black police officer who loves those who hate, Agnes Brill, the shrill piano teacher of patience, Junie Piper, precious of the homeless, Melvin, who honors his aging mother by honoring the little girl she has become, Lucian, the lover of thieves, and Blue Jack, the hammer of God. 

Readers will discover in these stories a powerful display of God’s working in the lives of all of us.  They’ll find a place where he works even in the dark, even in the struggles, even in the wounds.  This is the place where God’s light enters.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780310350347
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: 11/21/2017
Sold by: HarperCollins Publishing
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
File size: 421 KB

About the Author

Walter Wangerin Jr. is widely recognized as one of the most gifted writers writing today on the issues of faith and spirituality. Known for his bestselling The Book of the Dun Cow, Wangerin’s writing voice is immediately recognizable, and his fans number in the millions. The author of over forty books including The Book of God, Wangerin has won the National Book Award and the New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year Award. He lives in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he is Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University.

Table of Contents

1 Where Is Jesus?

1 Where Jesus Is 11

2 A Bunch-Backed Old Woman 17

2 Jesus Drawing Near

3 Talitha: Grandma Trula's Prayers 25

4 Wally: Dreading Christmas 33

3 The Fierce Anger Among Ourselves

5 Arthur Bias: "Wan-ter Toss a Line?" 41

6 Blue-Jack: The Hammer of God 47

4 Goods Get Goodness, Bads Get Badness

7 Henry: His God from the Beginning 53

8 Talitha: Do Me a Favor and Die 59

9 Karl: The Scar in My Ancient Mariner's Heart 63

10 Matthew: Goods Get Goodness, Bads Get Badness 67

5 It's The Little Things

11 Diane: What If I Can't Forgive? 75

12 Mary: A Hug as Holy as the Ocean 85

6 Catching Thieves

13 Lucian: Of Pastors and Thieves 93

14 Matthew: Because He Cried 97

7 Serving The Least

15 Billy: The Ruination of My Thanksgiving 107

16 Junle Piper: None So Precious 111

8 Divine Interruptions

17 Melvin: Honor Thy Mother 121

18 Joseph: A Supernal Parent's Divine Interruptions 127

9 An Invasion By God

19 Agnes Brill: Allergic to God 135

20 Joseph: The Kid Who Was the Judgment of God 143

10 The Uninvited Guest

21 Mary: "It's Only a Doll in the Box" 149

22 Talitha: The Caller 161

Epilogue: Walt At Seventy-Three 169

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