Gives the devoted readers of Barbara Cawthorne Crafton's beautiful prose everything they have come to expect from her: eloquence that takes them easily to the mountaintop; compassion that blesses and honors the low places; and wry wit that embraces all the in-between, everyday places. Holiness, she constantly reminds us, is where we are, not where we ought to be.

The stories and lessons from the religious life artfully mix the miraculous and the commonsensical. In one meditation on how to maintain spiritual discipline, Crafton writes, "Prayer is not a job! It's a gift"--a simple yet startling observation that may transform your devotional chores into occasions of joy. In another, she proposes an easy-to-follow first step that may lead you, with God's help, to something quite impossible: forgiving the unforgivable. Then there is her paean to the frivolous pleasures of the murder mystery, which comes with a plot twist and a most unusual bestowal of grace. Several other ruminations on weighty subjects such as time and death make the otherworld seem easily and naturally at hand--not separate or unknowable at all. (128 pp)

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Spiritual Journeys: The Companion Resource

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