Weaving together his own and others’ deeply felt experiences, Rev. Nathan Detering addresses the common questions we ask when we love someone with addiction and offers support to anyone struggling.
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Introduction
1. Why Is This Happening?
2. The Differences Racial Identity Makes
3. What Can You Do?
4. What Can’t You Do?
5. What about You?
6. What about the Rest of Your Family?
7. Come out of Hiding, Come into Community: A Family Testimony
Conclusion
Recovery and Support Programs
Acknowledgments
“Not long after Nick died, a friend shared with me a line from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms: ‘The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.’ Addiction has broken so many families within our congregations and communities. It certainly broke mine. This book is about reckoning with that breakage, and then leaning into the work of helping the families in our communities get stronger at our broken places. I am glad that my Unitarian Universalist theology and spiritual practices can help us. In our congregation we light our chalice, we share our prayers of sorrow and joy, we come together in community to help us hold hope, we practice being the people the world and families need, we seek to establish the kingdom of Heaven here in this life instead of pinning our hopes on some other life, and we affirm that no one is beyond the reach of God’s love. Whether you are a member of my faith, of another, or of none, I hope that you too will find healing and hope in these pages.”
Introduction
1. Why Is This Happening?
2. The Differences Racial Identity Makes
3. What Can You Do?
4. What Can’t You Do?
5. What about You?
6. What about the Rest of Your Family?
7. Come out of Hiding, Come into Community: A Family Testimony
Conclusion
Recovery and Support Programs
Acknowledgments
“Not long after Nick died, a friend shared with me a line from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms: ‘The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.’ Addiction has broken so many families within our congregations and communities. It certainly broke mine. This book is about reckoning with that breakage, and then leaning into the work of helping the families in our communities get stronger at our broken places. I am glad that my Unitarian Universalist theology and spiritual practices can help us. In our congregation we light our chalice, we share our prayers of sorrow and joy, we come together in community to help us hold hope, we practice being the people the world and families need, we seek to establish the kingdom of Heaven here in this life instead of pinning our hopes on some other life, and we affirm that no one is beyond the reach of God’s love. Whether you are a member of my faith, of another, or of none, I hope that you too will find healing and hope in these pages.”
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