The Lion and the Giant of My Dreams: The Struggle of an Australian Teacher with Blindness and Cancer

This autobiography by Australian teacher presents a remarkable narration of inordinate suffering and tragedy. Maxene Hewitt was an asthmatic child whose father was killed in war. As an adult, she was blinded and scarred in an automobile accident. Later on, she developed cancer.

This is the moving account of her psychological and spiritual struggles with losing her father, as well as her own illnesses, gradual blindness, and cancer. Through it all, she eventually reached acceptance and gained understanding and an intense awareness of the spiritual world, through which she began to sense the significance of a previous life. In recurring dreams, a lion represens her fear of disaster, while a giant stands as an image of her fear of death. Eventually, Maxene's approaching death leads her to perceive the archetypal pattern of Christ's life.