Jacob's Ladder: Wisdom for the Heart's Ascent - Tapa blanda

The author continues his best-selling series of spiritual fables featuring Jacob the Baker, a humble sage who returns home one evening to find an orphan looking for a father, to whom he imparts his life's wisdom. Reprint.

when the humble, sage man Jacob the Baker came home from work, a stranger waited on his doorstep: Jonah, an orphan boy, sent by an old friend for Jacob to raise, to teach, and to love. Now, for the first time, the gentle poet has been given the privilege of fatherhood. As the man and the boy seek to understand one another, Jacob answers profound questions about parenthood and intimacy, love and loss, growing older and becoming young at heart. And when Jacob the Baker speaks, we are wise to listen. . . .