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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #355639 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
This is the beginning of a beautiful love story, Nancy wrote in her diary after meeting Don Heche, the man she was to marry. Five children and 25 years of marriage later, it seemed as if they were the perfect family. Then Don was diagnosed with AIDS-the shocking discovery of his homosexual secret. This was only the beginning of loss and heartache. Shortly after Don's death, their 18-year-old son, Nathan, died in a car crash and Nancy fell into years of personal darkness. Eventually, as she was drawn into a long journey of growth and healing, her youngest daughter, Anne, began a very public lesbian love affair. Despite Nancy's life circumstances, she held on to what she knew of God's promises from Scripture and is discovering how to look at people and the world with God's perspective through eyes full of love and blessing. Her inspiring story of faith and courage will offer hope to anyone who has ever been on the brink of despair, or wondered how to respond with love to someone in a same-sex relationship.

About the Author
DR. NANCY HECHE brings a compassionate and practical approach to some sensitive and painful life issues. After her husband's death from AIDS, Nancy experienced the international media rush when her daughter began a highly publicized lesbian affair. Nancy is an instructor at Loyola University and Judson College in Illinois, and has earned a master's and doctorate in Pastoral Counseling. She has a private practice in psychotherapy where she specializes in communication and relationship issues, and is a popular Bible-study teacher.

Customer Reviews

Most honest book by Christian
This is the most honest book by a Christian I have ever read. I love it. I love the bold, obvious pain that comes across in the prose. I love the story of someone who has suffered more than I --- and lived to tell about it, and I love her anger - because who wouldn't be angry. This book is going to help a lot of families and I, for one, am grateful it was written. Out of Nancy Heche's pain, comes gain - in comfort of others.

A journey that doesn't end....thank God
Begin to cross the canyon and challenge yourself to walk as Christ walked. If you've felt torn about your witness as it relates to the homosexual community this book is a great help in getting your faith and your mind in the RIGHT place. Nancy's journey is both inspiring, challenging, and helpful for all of us who need some mentoring in this area of our witness. The answer to the question "who knows...." is WE KNOW; this book is for such a time as this....TODAY!!!

Very Mixed Feelings
I am glad that someone has written a book from the point of view of an evangelical Christian who is seeking to encourage others to have a more respectful attitude toward the gay community. Unfortunately, the person who wrote this book is so extremely self-centered and such an emotional mess, that it is difficult to take anything she says seriously or to trust her advice.

In many ways, I very much appreciate Nancy Heche's commitment to having love and respect for those to whom she refers as "living homosexually." I expect that most people who read her book are evangelical Christians, and because that community has such a poor record at treating gay people with love and respect, Nancy Heche's book is a big step in the right direction.

However, I read her daughter Anne Heche's book first, the memoir "Call Me Crazy," and I was extremely disappointed that Nancy does not address some of Anne's accusations against her. Anne accuses her mother of repeated physical abuse, and also of not protecting her from her father's sexual abuse, which Anne believes her mother knew about. Nancy Heche does not once mention that Anne believes that she was repeatedly raped by her father. Perhaps Nancy believes that this never happened. Even so, she should have brought it up. There is not a single reference to Anne's book. This absence greatly detracts from her claim that she is giving a complete and honest account of her life.

Nancy Heche is now a psychotherapist who gives seminars called "It's All About Me," in which she helps people take responsibility for their own feelings and for changing themselves, rather than trying to change their loved ones. While I am all for taking personal responsibility, that title very much characterizes Nancy's whole approach to everything. While she claims to be a Christian who is committed to doing God's will, her entire story is one long tale of self absorption. She makes it clear that the same self-centered approach that allowed her children's needs and safety to be neglected so that she could live a life that appeared to be perfect, is still going on in her seminars, which are more geared toward getting strokes and positive reinforcement for Nancy than for helping those in need.

If you are a Christian who has difficulty loving and dealing with homosexuals, this book will help you to learn tolerance and respect. If you are anyone else, don't waste you time on the whinings of a deeply messed up woman, who at nearly 70 and with a doctorate in counseling, still can't see past her own narrow-minded perspective.