Spiritual Journals: The Genesee Diary, Gracias!, the Road to Daybreak

This is a special gift edition of three of Henri Nouwen’s internationally acclaimed and world-renowned spiritual journals. The Genesee Diary was written during a seven-month stay at the Trappist Abbey of Genesee in upstate New York, where Nouwen met the challenge “to face my restless self.” In Gracias Nouwen reported on a six-month sojourn in Bolivia and Peru, where he came in touch with God’s “option for the poor” and the conviction that “somewhere, somehow, I too had to make that option.” The Road to Daybreak which chronicles a year spent at the L’Arche community for the mentally handicapped in Trosly, France, and records Nouwen’s “spiritual struggle to say ‘yes’ to Jesus’ invitation to ‘Come follow me.'”