You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer Author Cynthia Heald writing in our own time

writing in our own time and place (rather than the fourteenth century of Julian of Norwich or the twentieth of Thomas Merton)

Life is marked by a variety of losses

but Holder gives us colorful pictures and practical nuts and bolts of how we can be the answer to Jesus' prayer of true oneness

and I never-even for a fraction of a second-believed that this would work for me

Torry experienced plenty of miracles and mishaps in the wilderness

You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer Author Cynthia Heald writing in our own time"That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither whatever they do prospers." Psalm 1: 3Sometimes we describe ourselves as trees. When we're thriving, we speak of being rooted and fruitful, in a good season. When we struggle, we might describe ourselves as withering, cut off from friendship and the world. These ways of describing ourselves matter because they shape the ways we