Founder of Mary's Meals and Sunday Times bestselling author Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow explores the meaning of charity and its power to transform and enrich our lives through hisd encountersd with acts of charity in many different corners of the globe. By practising charity more fully we will come to knowe ourselves more fully. We might discover along the way that it is not only the poor person over there that needs charity, but us too. Within our very selves we may even discover families - parts of us starved of love - or areas of darkness into which we have never before ventured... Our relationship with charity can be a key that opens previously locked roomsd where our greatest treasures lie in wait - where gems such as joy, peace and a deeper sense of meaning and purpose glint and glimmer in the dark. Book jacket.