Becoming Flame: Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom

Synopsis: As it is written Our God is a consuming fire (Heb. 12:29); so we also must kindle the divine fire in ourselves through tears and hard work. -Amma Syncletica fourth century. What could be more natural and timely than ... Spiritual wisdom drawn from a womans world; word paintings expressed in the poetry of mother-daughter dialogue? Home and hearth lessons in eternal truth firmly grounded in day-to-day experience? Small scenarios of inquiry and response deep questioning and fledgling faith that reverberate with quiet insight? Dialogues that reflect modern levels of questioning; knots of paradox that require a womans patient attention and inner care to tease out true gentle wisdom? A poetic exploration of the large and the small issues of womens life-nested braided interwoven never fully unraveled-in precise language that retains the mystery but awakens the soul? Enter into the world of Becoming Flame: Uncommon Mother-Daughter Wisdom Dialogues with questions at the end for individual and group study. Endorsements: Significant . . . fine work. Original and profound. -Diane Moore author of Sophies Sojourn in Persia and The Holy Present. I like [Isabels] mixture of profundity and populism-her sense of addressing something accessible but without leaving behind the most serious paradoxes. -Richard Grossinger author of On the Integration of Nature. What is here is the eternal feminine in its most sacred presentations; and all people regardless of gender yearn to know and be embraced by that hallowed fullness. -From the Foreword by Phyllis Tickle author of The Great Emergence The Divine Hours and The Words of Jesus. Author Biography: Isabel Anders is also the author of Awaiting the Child: An Advent Journal Soul Moments: Times When Heaven Touches Earth The Faces of Friendship and 40-Day Journey with Madeleine LEngle. She is the mother of two grown daughters and lives with her husband Bill Keller in Sewanee Tennessee.