Joann Davis Boeken

Elizabeth ontdekt het lichaam van een klein kind dat is verdronken. Eeuwenoude vragen dringen zich aan haar Waarom moeten rechtschapen mensen lijden? Waarom moet een kind zo jong sterven? Op een nacht droomt ze over De Bron Die Nooit Droogvalt. Ze besluit daarnaar op zoek te gaan, in de hoop er troost te vinden. Samen met haar broer David en haar nichtje Mirjam gaat ze op pad. Onderweg ontmoeten ze allerlei personen, die Verhalenverteller bijvoorbeeld, de Lantaarnopsteker en de Bedelares. Van elk van hen ontvangen ze aanwijzingen die hen naar de heilige bron toe leiden. Daar ondervinden Elizabeth en haar metgezellen een van de belangrijkste levenslessen die er de onvoorwaardelijke kracht van de liefde.

In a mythical time, in an unnamed land, the shepherd Joshua is troubled by the harsh code of "an eye for an eye" that governs his world. Called by a dream, he sets off on a journey to find "the new way." Accompanied by Elizabeth, a former slave, and David, a boy who must learn to walk in new shoes, the shepherd knows that "an age of miracles" will come when the new way is found. The journey is not without incident. On their way, the travelers meet a cast of extraordinary characters, including the Storyteller, the Apothecary, the Blind Man, and the Stranger. Each imparts an important lesson that pushes the travelers toward their destiny. But Joshua, Elizabeth, and David will also discover that sometimes what we have been searching for has been inside us all along.

Nowadays, it's easy to think that happiness comes from getting the latest gadget advertised on television. But the little book you hold in your hands suggests that life is a spiritual exercise rooted in virtue, principle, experience, faith, community, and heartfelt emotion. Through simple essays, the author highlights the importance of making a "declaration of enough," developing "soul intensity," and avoiding "affluenza." This celebration of the real stuff of life expands on the popular bumper sticker that expresses what people everywhere know -- that "The Best Things in Life Aren't Things." Book jacket.

"When a package from an antiquarian bookshop in Frankfurt, Germany, arrives in Dorset, Vermont, the recipient finds that it contains a mysterious note and rare book. Bound in vellum, the book is impressed with the image of a woman holding a chalice in her outstretched hands as she stands atop a rock near an unsheathed sword"--Jacket.