The Gift of Guests: Lessons in Hospitality, Faith, and Becoming Human Together
Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF نویسندگان: Joel Vestal
جزئیات
فرمت: Kindle Edition or EPUB + Converted PDF ناشر: Zaydaya Press & Migros Aid تاریخ انتشار نسخه الکترونیکی : May 24, 2026
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لینک: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H2RG3Y2P
375,000 تومان
زمان تحویل: حداکثر 24 ساعت
توضیحات
What if the people you came to help were actually there to teach you?For more than a decade, Joel Vestal has walked alongside immigrants and refugees in his community—driving them to impound lots after robberies, sitting in hospital waiting rooms, helping young people navigate systems no one ever explained to them. He came expecting to offer help. What he received was something far more valuable.The Gift of Guests is a book about what happens when we slow down long enough to truly see people whose lives look nothing like ours. Through intimate, true stories—of a man who forgave his attackers the day after being assaulted, a mother who laughed at the word staycation because rest had become abstract, a first-grader who defined a leader as "someone with resilience"—Vestal uncovers thirteen lessons he never set out to learn.Lessons about forgiveness practiced under pressure, not in the safety of reflection. About the kind of hope that doesn't rush. About dignity hidden in small, unnoticed things—a bed frame, a pair of glasses, a prom dress. About faith that survives when it has nothing else to lean on.This is not a book about policy or politics. It is a book about people. And about what it costs us—in depth, in wisdom, in humanity—when we refuse to know them.Written for people of faith and anyone who has sensed that something essential is missing in how we live together, The Gift of Guests is both a challenge and an invitation: to look more closely, listen more honestly, and discover that the stranger at the door may be exactly who you needed to meet.Some of the most important things we've ever been taught arrived wearing a different face than we expected. This book is about learning to recognize the teacher.
375,000 تومان
زمان تحویل: حداکثر 24 ساعت