The Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns to Pray Review

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The Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns to Pray ReviewThis book is not another top-down instruction manual, but a bottom-up construction of a life with the spirit, written with searing honesty and realism. Crittenden has a tough journey, from her first timid movements toward prayer ("I am here, you are here" is all she can manage at first) through grief and depression, and into a fuller life.
I loved her grasping for ritual in prayer, from candles to prayer books to the Anglican rosary, looking for structure to hold up the amorphous communication with the divine.
One of my favourite reads of the year, this memoir is a beautiful prayer in itself, reaching out to the heights and depths of life.The Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns to Pray Overview

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Living an Uncommon Life: Essential Lessons from 21 Extraordinary People Review

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Living an Uncommon Life: Essential Lessons from 21 Extraordinary People ReviewI didn't know what to expect from the book or the author.
I saw the subtitle about lessons from 21 extraordinary people and feared it might be some exercise in genuflecting to celebrity. That is a most subversive notion in this day and age of conformity where aspiring to wealth seems the highest goal.
John St. Augustine's name didn't mean much to me either. I'm an east coast guy and though he was a succesful radio talk show host that was mostly in the middle of the country - plus, I'm not much of a talk show guy. I find the radio stuff so jarring and controversial that it leaves me uncomfortable. Would that his show had been on everywhere.
Then I cracked the spine. What a book. It is bold - it respects its readers and doesn't try and sell them on three ways to achieve success or 2.5 ways to live a get thin and achieve a lasting tan - because it challenges readers not to go to the comfortable wings (left or right) but to dig down deeply in their own lives. The book challenges our humanity and confronts us with the reality of our mortality and does with passion and enthusiasm and gusto because John St.Augustine looks at life and shouts, "YES!" It can be a bit intimidating because it is so radical.
At various points I found myself reading and thinking to myself that I could live the kind of rich, full life he writes about here -punctuated with stories of famous (and anonymous) people he has known - and wanting to live that kind of life but realizing that to do so I had to follow his most serious lesson...that living takes work and determination but that it is so worth that work.
I could go on and on in writing but frankly I am more interested in now going back through some of the chapters - like the one in which he talks about learning the power of living in the moment through the late Chicago Bears star Walter Payton - to learn what I have already forgotten.
I've never written an Amazon review before and perhaps I haven't done the best job - my enthusiasm may be getting in the way of my writing - but don't hold that again this uncommon book. It is remarkable and must, must, must be read.Living an Uncommon Life: Essential Lessons from 21 Extraordinary People Overview

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Dogs of Proud Spirit Review

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Dogs of Proud Spirit ReviewI finished reading Melanie's new book, "The Dogs of Proud Spirit" and have already reread several of the chapers because I enjoyed them so much. I found myself laughing as Molly surfed the countertops and snagged sandwiches without moving the plate a centimeter! Imagine Melanie's surprise when there was no sign of having made lunch! But then there are the heartfelt chapters of dogs who were found shivering in the cold at the Proud Spirit gate or puppies dumped along the roadside and welcomed into the warmth and love of Melanie's and Jim's hearts and home. How they joined the growing pack of dogs is told, by Melanie, in a way that puts the reader right beside her in each and every situation.
This book is terrific and I HIGHLY recommend it! All who have read her first two books, "The Horses of Proud Spirit" and "Hoofprints . . ." have eagerly awaited another book by Melanie, and happily, we have this new one. We think of Proud Spirit as a horse sanctuary, which it is, but ...the Bowles have taken in stray dogs who have wandered into their lives . . . currently twelve who will touch your heart as well as make you laugh out loud.
Don't miss this one! And best of all, purchasing any of the Proud Spirit books directly helps both the horses and the dogs.
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