Just Passing Through

by Guenther, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781596270503
• ISBN10: 1596270500
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Seabury Books

Summary

Fans of Margaret Guenther will welcome this salty and wise collection of reflections on her life journey - her childhood in Kansas City, her college days, her career, her travels, and her slow awakening to the transience of all things. This writer and spiritual director looks back over the nearly eight decades of her life, tackling themes of childhood, friendship, moving, the magic of words, heaven, spirituality in cyberspace, asking the right questions, and things never to do again. Readers of Holy Listening, On Holy Ground, My Soul in Silence Waits, At Home in the World, and The Practice of Prayer will delight in this book of fresh, humorous insights.

Table of Contents

Sojourning	p. 1
Prodigality
God and Purple Loosestrife	p. 4
Feeding the Multitude	p. 9
Bad Math	p. 13
Midnight Mystics	p. 18
Friends and Sisters
Thank You, Betty Friedan!	p. 24
The Spiritual Significance of a Sally Lunn Cake-Actually, Only Half of One	p. 28
Women Without Words	p. 32
In Defense of a Woman Named Martha	p. 36
Spiritual Life in Cyberspace	p. 41
The Canaanite Woman	p. 45
Holy Agnosticism	p. 49
Words
Learning to Read	p. 54
Words	p. 57
So-What Was the Question?	p. 61
Small Words To Be Used With Care	p. 65
Whatever Became of Sin?	p. 68
A Secret Word	p. 72
Bridge Pipes	p. 76
There Is So Much to Hear	p. 79
Growing Old
Reflections of a Septuagenarian	p. 84
Notes from a Sojourner	p. 87
The House I Live In	p. 91
Who Is That Person in the Mirror?	p. 95
Diminishment	p. 99
Things I Will Never Do Again	p. 103
Making It All Come Out Even	p. 107
Work
Retirement	p. 112
My Little Room	p. 115
My Day Job	p. 119
My Other Day Job	p. 122
Priorities for Shepherds	p. 126
Hospital Corners	p. 130
Touch and See	p. 134
Good Friday	p. 138
Life Goes On
I'm Proud To Be an Eagle	p. 142
A Golden September Day	p. 146
Prayer and Broccoli	p. 150
Pruning	p. 153
Sheep	p. 157
Is That Bush on Fire?	p. 161
It's Time for an Onion Sandwich	p. 166
Moving Through the Wilderness	p. 169
If Only You Would...Yes, But	p. 173
Waxed Skis	p. 177
Planting the Apple Tree	p. 181
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