Touching the Edge

Margaret Wurtele (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2003
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-471-22287-3 (ISBN)

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This is a poignant spiritual memoir about love, loss, and redemption. Margaret Wurtele writes about a parent's worst nightmare - the loss of her only son while climbing Mount Rainier when he attempted to save another person's life.

From grief to growth after a son's death In August 1995, Margaret Wurtele got the worst news any parent can receive: Philip, her twenty-two-year-old son, had just died in a climbing accident on Mount Rainier. At the time, Wurtele was absorbed in an intense midlife spiritual awakening. Suddenly she felt betrayed by the God she had only just embraced. In this beautifully written memoir, Wurtele takes us along on her spiritual journey in the aftermath of Philip's death. With a novelist's eye for detail, she conveys the dark nights of the soul and the crises of faith she experienced - as well as the love of family, friends, and community and the prayer that helped her move back from the edge of grief to find a rekindled and more meaningful spiritual life. For every woman - and for anyone faced with a personal tragedy or crisis of spirit - this heartfelt, exquisite, and wise book offers hope and comfort. Margaret Wurtele (Minneapolis, MN) is the cofounder and co-owner of Ruminator Books Press, a small independent publisher in Minnesota.
The author of a previous spiritual memoir, Taking Root, she is a former board chair of Minnesota's Episcopal House of Prayer and she and her husband own a vineyard in the Napa Valley.

MARGARET WURTELE was the cofounder of the Minnesota--based independent publisher Hungry Mind Press, now Ruminator Books Press. The author of a previous spiritual memoir, Taking Root, she is a former board chair of the Guthrie Theater and Minnesota's Episcopal House of Prayer. She and her husband divide their time between Minneapolis and California's Napa Valley, where they grow grapes and produce Terra Valentine wine.

Prologue.Questions of Spirit.The View from the Bottom.Mountain Story.Facing Off.Spirit from Head to Heart.Phil's Women.Climbing.House of Prayer.Echoes.Camp Phil.We Make Our Song.New Family.Convergence.Earthly Matters.Looking for Answers.Terrible Glory.Continental Divide.The Birthday Visitor.First Christmas.Something to Leave the World.Nancy.The Body's Code.Return to the Mountain.Pilgrimage.Sacred Space.No Tomorrow.Letting Go.For the Living.Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.2.2003
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Trennung / Trauer
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-471-22287-9 / 0471222879
ISBN-13	978-0-471-22287-3 / 9780471222873
Zustand	Neuware