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Not Of The Cradle

by Anbur J Hellicah

140 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-2912; ISBN 1-4251-6353-X; US$13.88, C$13.88, EUR9.48, £7.17

Hardship demands sacrifices. This is a book of faith and a heartfelt search by one man for his destiny and spiritual heritage, leading to his own journey of self discovery.

About the Book

When Hellicah's mother dies suddenly, it leaves the young boy devastated, stunned. It leaves him with an emptiness nothing seemed able to fill. Hellicah's father, a man accustomed to a life of pain and suffering, felt hopeless at the agony and such wastefulness in his son's life. He accepted it readily as the will of his Creator. But this was all to change. Through this hopelessness appears a woman moved by the hand of God. Single-minded in her pursuit of His will, she makes the young Hellicah leave his home and everything he has ever known at that tender age to find his destiny in a new land. Thus begins the moving true tale of Hellicah's lonely journey of healing and self realisation. The central theme on sacrificial love is of particular significance as it weaves itself through the story. In order to find meaning in our lives, we need to give of ourselves to others unconditionally; a wholesome, sacrificial kind of giving, as was the unselfish love of a father for his son, Hellicah. This is a story about love of enormous proportions, as the reader will sadly discover, and answers to that age old existential questions to life-who am I and where am I going to. For Anbur it was the ultimate realisation that faith in God is all that matters in life as God himself is of no particular faith or denomination. But more importantly for the reader, it is proof that love can indeed be bequeathed.

About the Author

Anbur Hellicah was born third in a family of five children. He received all of his early formative education in Alamya and later went on to complete the much sought after professional qualification with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, UK. Committed to the fulfillment of a silent promise to himself with regards to Hellicah and Bathsamaia, Anbur returned to Alamya to pursue his career with a local conglomerate and, after twenty years there, left and founded his own consulting practice providing the outsource of Internal Audit and Risk Management support to Stock Exchange Listed entities. Living close to Hellicah and Bathsamaia for most of his life gave Anbur the opportunity to know, understand and appreciate their quiet struggles in life which helped him with much of the thoughts found in this book.

Although married in a Catholic church, Anbur carried with him his own heritage brand of spirituality and it was only after his baptism in the Easter of 1999, that he gradually gained a deep experiential knowledge of God through his chosen faith, and the oneness of that God with the God of his birth. This realisation also led to his subsequent inner struggles with aspects of practiced Catholicism, Christian life conflicts and unavoidably, a quest for answers. His sojourn in private reflection during a protracted period of Lenten fasting and prayer was to provide for Anbur the inspiration, much of the material and the need to write this inspired book – "Not of the Cradle".