Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion is Christian literature by Greg Boyle, published in 2010.

Jesuit priest Boyle recounts his two decades of working with homies in Los Angeles County, which contains 1,100 gangs with nearly 86,000 members. Boyles Homeboy Industries is the largest gang intervention program in the country, offering job training, tattoo removal, and employment to members of enemy gangs. Effectively straddling the debate regarding where the responsibility for urban violence lies, Boyle both recounts the despair of watching the kids you love cooperate in their own demise and levels the challenge to readers to stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather than stand in judgment at how they carry it. From moving vignettes about gangsters breaking into tears or finding themselves worthy of love and affirmation, to moments of spiritual reflection and sidesplittingly funny banter between him and the homies, Boyle creates a convincing and even joyful treatise on the sacredness of every life. Considering that he has buried more than 150 young people from gang-related violence, the joyful tenor of the book remains an astounding literary and spiritual feat.;Preface — Introduction — God, I guess — Disgrace — Compassion — Water, oil, flame — Slow work — Jurisdiction — Gladness — Tyranny of success — Kinship.

For twenty years, Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on the Heart, he distills his experience working in the ghetto into a breathtaking series of parables inspired by faith.

Arranged by theme and filled with sparkling humor and glowing generosity, these essays offer a stirring look at how full our lives could be if we could find the joy in loving others and in being loved unconditionally. From giant, tattooed Cesar, shopping at JCPenney fresh out of prison, we learn how to feel worthy of God’s love. From ten-year-old Lula we learn the importance of being known and acknowledged. From Pedro we understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue someone from the darkness. In each chapter we benefit from Boyle’s gentle, hard-earned wisdom.
These essays about universal kinship and redemption are moving examples of the power of unconditional love and the importance of fighting despair. Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the Heart reminds us that no life is less valuable than another.

In this book, How does one fight despair and learn to satisfy the planet with a loving heart? How does one overcome shame? Stay faithful in spite of failure? regardless of where people live or what their circumstances could also be, everyone needs boundless, restorative love. Gorgeous and uplifting, Tattoos on the guts amply demonstrates the impact unconditional love can wear your life. You can download from below and buy from amazon if you want.

Tattoos on the heart: stories of hope, parables of compassion PDF

Author(s): Gregory Boyle

Publisher: Free Press, Year: 2010

ISBN: 9781439153024

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