Exploring Faith, Hope & Love

The journey to loving people more than concepts requires faith and hope. The connections between these three virtues are not immediately obvious, but to those on the journey these virtues are the spiritual rubber that meets the road of life that helps us grow in stability and peace; with flexibility, and humility, where we will love people genuinely out of caring. Coming from my own experience and using First Corinthians 13 as my spring board, I explore what love looks like and what it isn't. The hope, and faith chapters are shorter in length and explore what that I struggled with and came to grips with in my Dark Night.

The author was born in Springs, South Africa. He immigrated to Canada in 1977 with His parents and siblings. He completed two degrees from the University of Alberta before coming down with a mental illness known as schizophrenia in 1992. The illness became for him what Saint John of the Cross describes as the Dark Night of the Soul. It is out of this illness that this book is inspired. Rene currently works at a Shelter in Vancouver but lives in Burnaby, BC.