Macrina’s
Pick – This Year’s Favorites: -
For as long as I can remember, books have been a haven and refuge for me. Reading a book is like walking into a new and sometimes magical land where I feel safe enough to get lost. I meet wonderful people who are trying to make sense out of some of the same things I struggle with. As I visit new places I am introduced to other cultures and religions. …When I am reading a book I enjoy, I can enter into it so fully that I live with the characters (and ideas) throughout the reading. I meet them at the breakfast table, in the supermarket, and on the street. They get under my skin and into my heart.
—Macrina Wiederkehr
Gold In Your Memories
Here
you will find a listing of some of the authors who keep
tapping me on the shoulder.
What
I’m Reading (and praying) Now:
John Cassian Conferences
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (American Life) by Ted Kooser
The Book of the Dun Cow and its sequel,
the Book of Sorrows by Walter Wangerin, (a re-read)
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery (author of Anne of Green Gables)
A Few of My Recent Favorites:
Contemplative Prayer for Today by Ernest Larkin O’Carm
Prayer by Joyce Rupp
A Divine Scavenger Hunt by Mary-Keith Dickinson
A Few of My All-Time Favorites:
A Listening Heart—David Steindl-Rast
An Interrupted Life by Etty Hillesum
Anam Cara—John O’Donohue
Gift of the Redbird—Paula D’Arcy
How Then Shall We Live—Wayne Muller
If You Want to Write—Brenda Ueland
Living From the Center—Jay McDaniel
May I Have This Dance—Joyce Rupp
New Seeds of Contemplation—Thomas Merton
Pray all ways—Edward Hays
Prayers of the Cosmos—Neil Douglas-Klotz
Psalms For Praying—Nan Merrill
Start Where You Are—Pema Chodrin
The Artists Way—Julie Cameron
The Cloud of Unknowing—anonymous classic
The Heaven Tree Trilogy—Edith Pargeter (who also writes as Ellis Peters)
The Kite Runner—Khaled Hosseini
The Selected Poems of Wendel Berry
Wisdom Distilled from the Daily—Joan Chittister
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