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

ISBN: 0375705635

Author: Gallagher, Nora

Condition: New

The author of the highly praised memoir Things Seen and Unseen now bears witness to the way death yields new life as she searches for direction in the wake of her brother's death.Honest and human and surprisingly humorous in its clarity of vision. -The Washington Post Book ReviewIn her memoir Things Seen and Unseen, Nora Gallagher reflected on a year of spiritual renewal and the fact of mortality with uncommon wisdom and grace. We rejoin her in Practicing Resurrection. A desire to reclaim her own wild life and a sense of the sacred in the world compels her to assess everything: her marriage, her writing career, and her commitment to parish life. A profound testimony to the urgency of living with meaning, to the natural worlds solace and sacredness and a beautiful and often harrowing account of the search for vocation. Gallagher