Teresa Zukic

This book includes so many aspects and topics that it is hard to write something concise about it. The general theme is 'New Beginnings', and the author starts out with her own biography. As a child she was a competitive gymnast, then had to switch to athletics because of an injury, and as a young adult she completely started over as a nun, only to found her own community when she was in her forties.
But this book is not a biography, as she writes about many religious topics and about life in general: New beginnings in faith, leaving fear and anxiety behind, new ideas that the German churches sorely need, and new developments that might come in the wake of the pandemic.
This was one disadvantage of the book: It was written in the summer of 2020, and the author was clearly full of hope that the pandemic would bring some kind of change - regarding the environment, the payment of and respect for key workers, and human interactions. Looking back almost three years later, it is safe to say that nothing of that did happen in the long term, and so it was a bit depressing to read about all of that.
I also wished for a more structured tale, as, mostly towards the end of the book, it was sometimes hard for me to follow Zukic's train of thought, and it sometimes read as if she was just brainstorming.
Apart from that, though, I liked this well enough and will seek more by this author as her words are heartwarming and authentic. Her messages appear a bit simplistic, but that is ok as she clearly tries to reach a wide audience and wishes her books to be understood also by those who are not used to reading complicated texts.… (más)