Sacred Gifts: Extraordinary Lessons from My Ordinary Teens

By Tina Brennan

Our job as adults is to recognize the opportunities for growth, realization, and sacred insight--all gifts of grace--that fill our teens' eventful lives. In Sacred Gifts, Tina Brennan unwraps ten gifts she received from her seven children when they were teenagers: forgiveness, perseverance, listening, advocacy, giving, sacrifice, loneliness, decision, injustice, and surrogacy. Brennan explains how we are called to teach our young people, and to witness to and learn from them. Our teens, those "fragile creators of chaos," bring gifts of wisdom to the family and to the world, and the results of those gifts can be awesome and enriching. Sacred Gifts invites you to reflect on how the gifts teens give you every day might become part of your own life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884897419
• ISBN13: 9780884897415
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Saint Mary's Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.3" x 5.5"