In the Light of Silence

After a drunk driver leaves her with an impaired memory and a consuming anger scientist Kate Solterra retreats to the Virginia mountains to reconstruct her life. Anticipating a peaceful place to recover she doesnt expect to find a group of Quakers involved in offering a safe haven to refugees fleeing the Salvadoran Civil War. Kate feels a strong connection to the refugees because like her they must reinvent their lives. When Kates involvement with the Quaker Meeting and the refugees leads to her becoming a target of those objecting to the Quakers plans she makes a radical decision. Although Kate believes in science not faith she begins making a truce with her limitations and realizes that she indeed can create a different kind of life for herself--and to her surprise God may be speaking to her out of those deep silences in the Meetinghouse after all. In the Light of Silence is a story about marshaling courage to respond to fear maintaining faith in the midst of doubt and experiencing the redemptive power of forgiveness.