When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions

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Description: Blending her own experiences with an intimate grasp of contemplative spirituality, Sue Monk Kidd relates the passionate and moving tale of her spiritual crisis at midlife, when life seemed to have lost meaning and how her longing for hasty escape from the pain yielded to a discipline of "active waiting." Comparing her experience to the formative processes inside a chrysalis on a wintry tree branch, Kidd reflects on the fact that the soul is often symbolized as a butterfly. The simple cocoon, a living parable of waiting, becomes an icon of hope for the transformation that the author sought. Kidd charts her re–ascent f ... (more)

Manufacturer: HarperOne
Release date: 1 November 2006
ISBN-10 : 0061144894 | ISBN-13: 9780061144899

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