Before I Go: Letters to Our Children about What Really Matters [Hardcover]

This extraordinary book is a collection of luminous, practical, edifying, and hilarious insights into lifeinto real love. They are the heritage that the author/father, easing into the end phase of his life, has garnered from long experience and deep reflection, and which he seeks to pass down to his children and grandchildren, and the coming generations. Kreeft's 'last words' are in turn wise, witty, earthy, pithy, and frequently sublime. This is neither an abstract tome nor a 'how-to' manual. It's simply a treasure that should be handed out gratis to all young couples planning to be marriedin fact, to all those embarking on the human adventure. In a wordto everyone.Kreeft's latest book, presented as homey advice about life to his own children, appears deceptively simple, but it is profound and thought-provoking. This is no surprise for all Kreeft fans, myself included.Peter Kreeft exhibits four gifts: he writes beautifully, he has a sense of humor, he really loves wisdom, and he is not afraid to share that love. Fortunate the young people into whose hands falls this book.Readers rightly look for both wit and sagacity from Peter Kreeft. They will find both in this book. But they will find that both spring from the heart of a very wise father who walks with the Father of us all.The book offers 163 lessons for the good life based on Kreefts own experiences and study and just plain living (more than six decades). It is common sense delivered with uncommon ease and sincerity. The readerand this is a book for all ageswill stop often along the way, so obvious are these bits of wisdom we fail to remember. Topics range broadly: making choices wisely, prioritizing, handling worry, time management, prayer life, sacrifices, marriage and family, keeping a chapbook, love, death. Before I Go belongs in every Christian familys library, to be dipped into often.Little books of advice such as the Chicken Soup series or Tuesdays at Morrie's have been popular for a long time nowls(