changing patagonia practicing discernment

books:

2 reviews

Chronicle Books, 1999

Notes from the publisher's site
As there was no description for this book, I have taken the liberty to add the following from the publisher's (Chronicle Books) web site: "The people who use Patagonia® gear have explored the furthest extremities of wildness-from the icy waters of the Labrador Sea to the baking hot, vertical granite of El Capitan. Patagonia: Notes from the Field delivers an intense glimpse of those front lines ...

Changing Light (Vintage)

16 reviews
Nora Gallagher

Vintage, 2008

Emotionally satisfying--Intellectually stimulating
"Changing Light" by Nora Gallagher was a delightfully surprising debut novel--a richly satisfying story, artfully and lyrically told, with profound emotional and intellectual overtones. Tangentially, this is a love story. But more directly, it tells the tales of different life-changing moral dilemmas that three characters must resolve as their lives intertwine during the spring and summer of 1945 ...

Practicing Resurrection: A Memoir of Work, Doubt, Discernment, and Moments of Grace

12 reviews
Nora Gallagher

Vintage, 2004

A profoundly moving statement about Life and Death and Love
Nora Gallagher tells a wonderful story about the everyday as well as the "big" events of life. Through a year of searching for answers and asking the needed questions, she goes beyond the usual metaphors to look at how to deal with the death of her brother, how to reconnect to her husband and most significantly, how to make an decision about which road to take next in her life. Readers - don't ...

Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith

29 reviews
Nora Gallagher

Vintage, 1999

This is what faith is really about!
Gallagher has written a beautiful book, giving us a year-long chronicle of her faith, using the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church as her guide. She shows us that faith encompasses the whole human person--doubt, pain, loss, and joy. She reminds us that God's in it all, for better or worse--"God is not too good to hang out with jet-lagged women with cat-litter boxes in their dining ...