
The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.
– Gerald L Sittser
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- the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it. – Gerald L Sittser
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