Extraordinary Time: Spiritual Reflections from a Season with Cancer Death and Transition

Extraordinary Time appeals to people who have suffered serious illness or traumatic loss and are seeking a hopeful approach to healing from trauma pain and grief. The author recounts her harrowing one-year experience with cancer and its aftermath the death of her spouse and a major life transition. Extraordinary Time illustrates how a person faces significant life changes with courage and recovers through drawing on the wellsprings of faith the love and support of community and the full resources of the Christian spiritual tradition including the mystics and Communion of Saints. The great themes of suffering healing death and the afterlife are explored from a spiritual teachers deeply formed angle of vision through which a wide range of readers will find encouragement consolation and inspiration for dealing with their own extraordinary times.