To participate in the book club, read the book, review the reflection questions below, then share your thoughts in writing to have them posted on the Sacred Heart Website Blog. Email your responses to: heartpetals@gmail.com. You may purchase the book at your favorite book store or go to www.Amazon.com and make your purchase there.
Select either of the two following titles:
THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson.
“In Pakistan and Afghanistan we drink three cups of tea to do business: the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third you join our family, and for our family,
we are prepared to do anything – even die.”
THREE CUPS OF TEA by Greg Mortenson.
“In Pakistan and Afghanistan we drink three cups of tea to do business: the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third you join our family, and for our family,
we are prepared to do anything – even die.”
~ Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karaporam Mountains, Pakistan
In 1993 a mountaineer named Greg Mortenson drifted into an impoverished Pakistan village in the Karakoram mountains after a failed attempt to climb K2. Moved by the inhabitants’ knowledge, he promised to return and build a school. Three Cups of Tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcome. Over the next decade Mortenson built not just one but fifty five schools– especially for girls– in the forbidden terrain that gave birth to the Taliban. His story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spirt.
or
THE SHACK by William Paul Young
THE SHACK by William Paul Young
Mackenzie Allen Phillips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant “The Shack” wrestles with the timeless question, “Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?” The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him. You will want everyone you know to read this book!
Choose any of the following reflection questions to respond to,
or feel free to respond in your own way.
or feel free to respond in your own way.
1. Did this book relate to your life? How?
2. Did this book help you on your faith journey? If so, how?
3. What feelings did this book evoke? Why?
Send your responses to: heartpetals@gmail.com
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
