The Fire of Your Life

by Maggie Ross

Book Overview

A life-professed solitary and mystic under vows to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Ross writes with the wonder and energy of a spiritual poet. In this new edition of a spiritual classic, she shares one year of her solitude in seasonal meditations that include encounters with lynxes and coyotes, reflections on the summer solstice, and desire for union with God. An excellent source of sermon ideas.

In one essay, Ross reveals the two comments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596270519
• ISBN13: 9781596270510
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Seabury Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Keep It Handy

You don't want to read this book once and then put it on the back shelf. I've read mine several times and found myself reaching for it again recently. There's more here than meets the eye.

Astonishing and quirky primer for the soul

This book is the literary equivalent of walking the labyrinth for the first time. For whatever reason you might have picked it up, it will challenge and surprise you. Discard any notions about Vitamin spirituality, i.e. "Reading this will be good for me so I might as well choke down a chapter a day." This is not a comfy-cozy book, it is about ways of encountering the Living God, with the upheaval that would necessarily entail. Maggie Ross is a gifted writer, and is blessedly free of any taint of preachiness, or, for that matter, much predictability. She takes God seriously, without taking herself (or the rest of us) too much so. This book is a joy and a puzzle and I highly recommend it.