Patched Together Review

PATCHED TOGETHER: A Tale OF MY Tale. By Brennan Manning. Colorado Springs: David C. Receive, 2010. 139 pp. Henri Nouwen tease of Jesus as the mix up healer" and invited us to share in that identity as we lived lives in the world. Brennan Manning, by his own recognition a recovering alcoholic and a former Franciscan reverend who has authored a number of well-received books, as well as the Ragamuffin Gospel", introduces us to the "Remedy Man," a whisperer of a invention called "amorine" or the "remedy of love," which the Remedy Man gives without fare. This Remedy Man, we will rent, is anyway the Man of Sorrows, who brings analysis and consortium to a young boy's life. "Patched Fixed "is a collection of two before stories, which Manning has brought together with a third. Entitled "Sunrise, The middle of the day," and "Dim," the three stories ferryboat us all through the life of Willie Juan, a broken and flawed boy of mixed customs whose father is delayed and his jump has consumed. He lives with his Grandmother who pours out love, bear and philosophical statement, but it is his fight with the Man of Sorrows that changes his life. It is all through the Man of Sorrows that he discovers friendship for the first time. It is all through the Man of Sorrows and the Cover, whom he meets in a mountain cavern, that he finds himself able to accompany his own scars, which came as a follow of a horrible auto condition, and with find analysis. It is anyway all through this transforming set of experiences that he encounters Abba. In each of the new encounters, shared in the story "Sunrise," analysis takes place and he learns to accompany himself and his own aid organization and abilities. In the second story, "The middle of the day," we meet Willie Juan in manhood. Having escape on the cross the border into New Mexico, he is able to use his skill with wood image to become trickery and comfortable. But similar as he becomes comfortable, he begins to lose his sight. But all is not elegant, for he encounters, on the streets, a young woman, whom he realizes is the one person who befriended him as a young man. Considerably younger than he, she had helped him care for the donkey that carried sea to the cooperative spirit. She too was now in Santa Fe, but separate him she's not comfortable. Instead, she is animated in a shed, but her life is not pointless. No, she lives a life of service to the family tree. They become friends and fall in love, but Willie Juan, having escape crave does want to counter to it, and Ana does not want to ditch community whom she serves. Their relationship is broken as a follow, and with she dies in an condition, and Willie Juan, who over time has begun to forget the Man of Sorrows, and who now is pest from blindness, grows gradually biting and timetabled. As the story continues, Ana's father brings to him a consent to from his elegant love, a recite. He had interminably meet to play, but did not possess the skill, but as he picked up this consent to, he began to play out his sorrows and pity, and again he became celebrated and comfortable, but the music grew intuition, as the pity played out with zero to thrash it. This changes, in a generation, as he returns home to his cooperative spirit of Hopi, a town that had been altered due to the aid organization he had shared anonymously over the years. Anecdote that he, the trickery trumpeter, had returned to the cooperative spirit reached the Archbishop, who invites him to play a song at the Christmas Eve service in Mexico City. He accepts and shares in a song in black and white for the generation, a song that cries out his apprehension, but a song that creates a satisfy from the Man of Sorrows, who proclaims in a return choral by the bind, that Abba had interminably loved him. In the truth story, Willie Juan is reunited with a resurrected Ana, who becomes his acquaintance in life and service - now in Hopi. It is in this truth time of life, spent with Ana, that he befriends brand new, who becomes his lonely, and the one who is called upon to opinion telling the story of the Man of Sorrows. Acquaint with in the truth stage, Willie Juan is able to see Abba incline to incline. This is a passing and muted story of one's life in relationship to God. It is a story of analysis and dainty, keepsake that the Man of Sorrows has under enemy control upon himself our griefs and burdens, bringing analysis to our lives. It is a beautiful and transforming story. It is not the story of one pest subject that we pro, but one who is delightful to share and swing at on our burdens and injuries. It is anyway a story of the relief with which we can lose sight of the one who gives us life. It anyway reminds us of what is bits and pieces in life. This, one must say is a keepsake that gospel stands at the starting point. See this and you will be saintly.