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Finding Home: An Imperfect Path to Faith and FamilyDavid C. Cook / 2007 / Hardcover
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Product DescriptionBe inspired by the incredible life story of Jim Daly, President and CEO of Focus on the Family. See how God took a young man from a shattered family and transformed him into the leader of one of today's most recognized and effective family ministries.
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Publisher's Description"I should be insane—or in jail." Instead, Jim Daly, President and CEO of Focus on the Family managed to rise above his harrowing childhood that began in the Compton suburb of Los Angeles. In this deeply personal memoir, he relives horrors no child should endure. A bloodcurdling neighborhood murder merely serves as the backdrop to the abuse and alcoholism within the four walls of his own home, a cycle broken only by the cancer that leaves him motherless. Orphaned by twelve, he somehow managed to catch enough glimpses of grace that he knew he wanted more, both from himself and from a God he had to believe existed. Author BioAfter pursuing careers in sales and international business, Jim Daly became a member of the Focus on the Family team in 1989. Since then he has risen through the company until becoming President and CEO in 2005. He lives with his wife of twenty six years, Jean, and their two sons, in Colorado Springs.
Publisher's WeeklySince 2005, Daly has been president and CEO of Focus on the Family, the
conservative Christian organization founded by child psychologist and
Republican activist James Dobson. Daly's childhood family sorely needed focus:
the last of five children born to aging alcoholics, young Jimmy experienced
his father's abandonment, his stepfather's rages, his mother's death and
several years with a gloriously insane foster family living next to their own
personal garbage dump. He apparently avoided beatings and sexual abuse, though
his chirpy coauthor rarely plumbs the depths of Daly's probable anguish.
Rather than looking inward, the young adolescent developed a pragmatic
philosophy of survival: "Keep your expectations low. That way you don't get
hurt." Somehow, despite homelessness and lack of income, he made it through
college, studied overseas, married a good woman, climbed the career ladder
and, sadly, still advises low expectations. "I believe it's time we were open
with one another about the brokenness that we all share," he writes, though
his story reveals much more of his family's brokenness than his own. Dobson
fans-and they are legion-will find Daly's rags-to-(spiritual)-riches story
inspirational; others may wish he had dispensed with his coauthor and spoken
directly from the heart. (Sept.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
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