num_pages: 186
description: In January 1984 Sr. Mary Margaret Funk a Benedictine nun from Indiana paid a visit to Maryknoll missionary nuns working in Bolivia. On what should have been a routine trip to the local town for a convocation ceremony a flash flood swept away the jeep in which she three nuns a priest and a disabled boy they had adopted were traveling. Only she and the priest survived. What happened that night catapulted Sr. Meg into twenty-five years of prayer and self-examination. She relentlessly explored her relationship with the transcendent and immanent God the profundities of her religious tradition her commitment to spiritual practice and her very human failings. It was a journey that left her spiritually naked before the terrible love of God; a journey to keep ones heart open to the transforming wounds of suffering. In the great tradition of spiritual confessions from Augustine to Thomas Mertons The Seven-Storey Mountain Into the Depths is a fearlessly honest and simply told account of one womans struggle to engage at the deepest levels with the most profound questions of faith.
language: English
title: Into the Depths: A Journey of Loss and Vocation
publisher: Lantern Publishing & Media