Beloved author Henri Nouwen reflects on the spiritual significance of death and life in this moving meditation dedicated to "all those who suffer the pain that death can bring and who search for new life."

These are published letters that Nouwen wrote to his father in the months following the death of his mother. In them Nouwen reflects on what has changed in his father and him, how their relationship is changed, the process of grief and making 'friends with death,' and accounting for all theologically in relationship to Jesus' death and resurrection. ( )

A letter originally written by the author to his father after th death of hs mother. It is a letter of consolation after death of a loved one.