Sister Emmanuelle was as a rebel born, a rebellious unparalleled into religion by the attractiveness of the Absolute. At first sight this seems strange for a nun who has taken a vow of obedience ... In this book, she recounts her journey from his childhood, his choice of belonging to the Congregation of Our Lady of Zion, her teaching joys in Istanbul, Tunis and Alexandria and then finally his vocation to settle in the age of sixty-two years in a Cairo shantytown among ragpickers. She recounts his struggles against poverty and illiteracy, his stubbornness and determination playing her good and bad turns, its ambitions and renunciations. The reader glimpses a smart woman (but with a remarkable spirit of contradiction!), The vital energy, the thirst for live and see the enthusiasm knew sweep many obstacles in its path. We also discover the original enough spiritual journey this very rational woman (one of its major sources of inspiration seems Pascal and Marcus Aurelius!) Who is suspicious of sentimentality and whose piety is, by his own admission, deductive. Finally this book is also a call to the reader out of his "comfort zone" to question certain ideas conveyed by our society (especially those of the released European woman) and encourages travel discovering oneself and the world around us. The prayers at the end of the book can be a help to start this individual journey ...
